“Less well done we know that we should find such a story tedious, but Clemence Dane has accomplished it with an art far surpassing that which she brought to her earlier novels.” D. L. M.
+ Boston Transcript p10 My 1 ’20 500w
“It is easy for so passionately earnest a writer to overemphasize, and just here a flaw is apparent in ‘Legend.’ The malice that rises like a poisonous vapour from that group around the fire is overdone. The people never lose reality but they do forfeit the right to great consideration. The effect is clear but a little too harshly handled.” H. I. Gilchrist
+ − Dial 68:523 Ap ’20 1500w Lit D p113 S 18 ’20 2550w
“It is a very short book, but one of very extraordinary richness and intricacy. Roads lead from it into all the regions of literature and life. One might follow any one of them and reach the uplands of high speculation. Technically it stands alone in English fiction. In other literatures its structural method is not unknown.”
+ Nation 110:240 F 21 ’20 1000w
“The new story is much shorter, hardly more than a long novelette, and it gains much in strength, dramatic quality and impressiveness by the compression. It is told more simply, with the effect of concealing the very remarkable art with which it is written, of making it seem artless in its basic simplicity.”
+ N Y Times 25:50 Ja 25 ’20 550w + N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w
“Some novels we enjoy; others we admire. If we consider Miss Clemence Dane’s ‘Legend’ under this rough division, it would certainly come in the second category. It is as subtle in its method as Miss Sinclair’s ‘Mary Olivier,’ but simpler in its plan and marked by greater clarity.”
+ Outlook 124:430 Mr 10 ’20 350w