“The forecasts of the author are reasonable and, on the whole, convincing.”
+ − Survey 44:351 Je 5 ’20 220w
DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON. Matrix. il *$1.75 (5c) Century
20–3881
The story is the romance of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, father and mother of Abraham Lincoln, put together by the author from legends and documentary evidence and woven into a work of fiction portraying pioneer life in the bluegrass valley of Kentucky, illumined by faith, love and courage. It throws a halo around the head of Lincoln’s mother and shows us his father as the first martyr to the cause of abolition.
Booklist 16:280 My ’20
“It is quite fitting that the story of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks should be written by an author who comes from the ‘blue grass country’ herself. She is able to bring to it that inherited tradition which is so difficult for an outsider to achieve.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 My 12 ’20 360w
“The author occasionally lapses into primer-technique. A maturer style could have given form to a more enduring romance.”