“Whether the whole performance is more than a brilliant tour de force may only be determined or estimated, after later readings; it is certainly well worth a first.” H. W. Boynton
+ − Review 2:334 Ap 3 ’20 500w
“Miss Dane has already won for herself, by two able stories, a place among the serious writers of the day; in ‘Legend,’ she has written one of the most remarkable novels we have seen for a long time. A strain of morbid excitement runs through the narrative, emphasized, perhaps by the endless pursuit of the conversation without a break of any kind. This trick seems hardly necessary, and Miss Dane would have made her book easier to read, and equally effective, if she had broken it up into chapters at the clear pauses or breaks in the emotional current.”
+ − Sat R 129:40 Ja 10 ’20 440w
“The book is subtly and skilfully written; it is an engaging literary achievement, particularly on the technical side.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 22 ’20 330w
“In imagination and power of concentration ‘Legend’ surpasses Miss Dane’s other novels, and there is in it in a greater degree shrewdness of insight and literary judgment. But this shrewdness has its evident limits in the understanding of men.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p649 N 13 ’19 750w
DANE, EDMUND. British campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914–1918. il *$3 Doran 940.42
(Eng ed 20–4448)