+ Booklist 17:60 N ’20
“One essay here, ‘On journal writers,’ is as authoritative as any upon the subject; for Barbellion’s soul was first and last the soul of a keeper of journals.”
+ − Nation 112:124 Ja 26 ’21 250w
“Turn the pages where you will and beauty escapes them, and always this sense of the infinite volume of life.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ N Y Times p18 S 26 ’20 650w
“To many readers it is ingratiating. For ourselves, a kind of cheapness and gush in Barbellion’s titanism makes us wonder that his friends, after exploiting the vein most liberally in ‘The journal of a disappointed man,’ should feel constrained to make a second demonstration. Only the present indiscriminating appetite for human documents, however insignificant, can explain the matter.”
− Review 3:478 N 17 ’20 400w
“Everywhere the thought has at its command a smoothly-flowing, cadenced, withal sinewy style, with the rhythms of Stevenson.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 S 13 ’20 650w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p82 F 5 ’20 1100w
CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM, ROBERT BONTINE. Brazilian mystic: being the life and miracles of Antonio Conselheiro. *$4 (6½c) Dodd