“He writes with eminent fairness, and writes only to inform. He achieves his aim strikingly. Sometimes he falls into the error of taking a phrase at its face value. Since even small things are important in a work of this kind. Professor Fenwick should be more careful about his dates.”
+ − N Y Times p22 D 19 ’20 2250w R of Rs 62:668 D ’20 100w
FERBER, EDNA. Half portions. *$1.75 (2c) Doubleday
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The nine short stories of this collection are: The maternal feminine; April 25th, as usual; Old lady Mandle; You’ve got to be selfish; Long distance; Un morso doo pang; One hundred per cent; Farmer in the dell; The dancing girls. They are stories of life as it is lived in Chippewa or Winnebago, Wisconsin, or on South Park avenue, Chicago. Some are stories of war time. One is an Emma McChesney story. They are reprinted from the Ladies’ Home Journal, Metropolitan, Colliers, and other magazines.
+ Booklist 16:347 Jl ’20
“All these stories and all these pages are thronged with real men and women, and in them Miss Ferber continues to display not merely her skill at story telling, but also her greater skill at breathing into them the breath of life. Reality and imagination combine equally in their making.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Je 2 ’20 1600w
“Miss Ferber’s talents go to polishing the bright pebbles of life, rather than to touching the bedrock of reality, but there’s no denying the world would be duller without an occasional pretty pebble.”