+ New Repub 24:329 N 24 ’20 1450w
“They who happen to enjoy Mr George’s essays as much as I do will ‘get’ with particular satisfaction certain qualities of ‘Caliban’ that give it freshness, energy and a peculiarly British tang.” Alexander Black
+ − N Y Times p13 S 5 ’20 2050w
“Bulmer is not developed as a character, he springs full-grown from Mr George’s top compartment; and after a time his dutiful gyrations become a sad bore. A thousand irresponsible brilliancies about nothing make for me a dull book. ‘Caliban’ is not a story or an interpretation, but a commonplace theme with endless more or less clever variations.” H. W. Boynton
− Review 3:296 O 6 ’20 450w
“The story of Richard Bulmer’s boyhood is quite as good as, perhaps better than, anything Mr George himself has yet written. But the whole business of newspaper founding and managing has been done before too often and better, and the crude introduction of real names into the narrative does nothing to heighten illusion.”
+ − Sat R 130:485 D 11 ’20 80w + Spec 125:571 O 30 ’20 150w + Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 820w
“He only succeeds in producing a masquerade—a disconcerting muddle of truth and fiction. Unfortunately there is no lightness of touch to redeem it. The story is over-written, and Mr George’s cleverness runs away with him into a tireless and feverish elaboration of detail which would be exhausting even if he kept to the facts of history.”
− The Times [London] Lit Sup p602 S 16 ’20 210w
GEORGIAN poetry, 1918–1919. *$2.50 Putnam 821.08