Ath p225 F 13 ’20 60w
“For readers unacquainted with contemporary French literature this volume should be a useful literary guide-book.”
+ Ath p475 Ap 9 ’20 600w Booklist 17:21 O ’20
“Many thanks should be given her by the English-speaking world for her brilliant and scholarly volume, arriving as it does when we need the stimulus and example of these French modernists.” C. K. H.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 21 ’20 980w
“The book has its insufficiencies of judgment, of course, apart from those created by an encroaching patriotism. But her defects are obvious; they spring readily from her qualities. She is interested in her chosen writers as complex individuals. As highly differentiated individuals she presents them; and in reaching for the core of personality she accomplishes something which is vital to criticism.” C. M. Rourke
+ − Freeman 2:140 O 20 ’20 900w
“Substantially it is now what it was then, [August, 1914,] and therein lies its extraordinary value. The war turned everything into legend and made of every face an angel’s or an ogre’s mask. Now that the world is mildly and tentatively beginning to use its mind again, a book like this serves to mend the broken continuity of truth and to restore the normal temper of one’s studies.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ Nation 111:105 Jl 24 ’20 1250w