“Aside from the amusing quality there is a basis of shrewd comment.”
+ Booklist 17:21 O ’20 + Boston Transcript p4 O 6 ’20 270w
“No less complete and varied than his estimate of man is Mr Day’s expression of it: a natural blend of wisdom with lightness, humour with profundity, hope with art, economy with abundance, kindliness with malice. The quality that makes possible such alliances is the one most infrequently granted to mortals: Mr Day sees things as they are beneath accumulated centuries of appearances; he cannot, he will not be fooled.” Robert Littell
+ Dial 69:197 Ag ’20 1300w
“Mr Clarence Day’s whimsicality is quite virile; it is the expression of a naturally ingenuous mind; ‘innocent’ in the Nietzschean sense and not incapable of a certain gentle philosophic malice.”
+ Freeman 1:358 Je 23 ’20 280w
“The most amusing little essay of the year.”
+ Ind 103:318 S 11 ’20 360w Nation 111:76 Jl 17 ’20 500w
“It ought to interest any lively spirit because of its grace and reasonableness. And it ought to entrap and enlighten any slack soul who may pick it up in search for amusement. Amusing it unquestionably is, but a great deal more than amusing, to follow this grim parallel between the ways of apes and men.” R. T.
+ New Repub 23:233 Jl 21 ’20 650w