+ Booklist 17:137 Ja ’21

“Certainly, except to the most determined skeptic, there is much in the book to convince one of the action of supernormal intelligence.”

+ Boston Transcript p4 Je 9 ’20 1050w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

Dial 69:207 Ag ’20 140w

“Unfortunately for the sympathy every one must feel with this beautiful record of a sister’s affection, it is impossible to accept Mrs De Koven’s views of what is ‘evidential.’ As propaganda the book is only one more tale of credulity; but it has unusual value in being entirely free from the sordid crime of ghosts for revenue. Mrs Vernon receives no remuneration when she summons Mrs De Koven to hear a message from the dead.”

+ − N Y Times 25:230 My 2 ’20 600w

Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow

Review 3:43 Jl 14 ’20 700w Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 280w

DE LA MARE, WALTER JOHN. Collected poems, 1901–1918. 2v *$4 Holt 821