“Beyond the statement that this book has an effective style, there is little to be said about it. The book is a thinly-veiled attack upon the Catholic church.”
− Cath World 112:270 N ’20 150w N Y Times 25:320 Je 20 ’20 520w
“It is a message of idealism beautifully conceived and filled with optimism for the world’s future.”
+ Outlook 126:507 Jl 14 ’20 20w
“This book will stir wonder and regret in those who remember and still admire Mr Crockett’s earlier novels.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p142 F 26 ’20 280w
CROMWELL, GLADYS. Poems. *$1.50 Macmillan 811
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“Another book that is in the nature of a memorial volume, since it is posthumous, is ‘Poems,’ by Gladys Cromwell. In a preface Padraic Colum gives a just and accurate account of Miss Cromwell’s achievement as a poet and defines her talent admirably. In a biographical note at the end of the book Anne Dunn accounts for the tragic death that shocked the world a year ago.... Miss Cromwell, as Mr Colum wisely suggests, was not a poet of facile and sensational emotions. Her gift is pensive. Her songs have a quiet music. Here is light that glows clearly, not fire to heat us.”—N Y Times