+ − Dial 68:664 My ’20 50w Nation 110:375 Mr 20 ’20 200w
“It has a certain stiffness, as if the task of weaving history and legend and surmise into a consistent and interesting story were a somewhat hampering business to the author. She has, however, succeeded in presenting a clear and evidently carefully drawn sketch of this particular period of American history.”
+ − N Y Times 25:160 Ap 4 ’20 280w
“It seems to us that the author has made the life of their community focus on these two young people almost too persistently, for whatever their foreordained place in history, they must have been to their neighbors ‘just folks.’ City dwellers who love the simple life will find a breathing space in this pioneer tale.” E. C. Webb
+ − Pub W 97:605 F 21 ’20 260w
“It is not the author’s fault if she has produced a pious memorial rather than a living portrait.” H. W. Boynton
− Review 2:462 My 1 ’20 130w Springf’d Republican p11a S 26 ’20 190w
DAVIS, FRANKLYN PIERRE, ed.[[2]] Anthology of newspaper verse for 1919, and year book of newspaper poetry. $2.50 The author. Enid, Okla. 811.08
20–15478
“Franklyn Pierre Davis of Enid, Okla. carries the anthologizing tendency a step further by editing an ‘Anthology of newspaper verse for 1919 and year book of newspaper poetry.’ Selections are made from a list of papers nationwide in range, and include topical poems, light verse and serious poetry. The editor says: ‘I hope to be able to present annually the best of the verse published in the newspapers in a volume which may preserve for the future the real sentiment of the American people and the true ideals of American life.’”—Springf’d Republican