Bookm 52:347 D ’20 60w
“There is a great deal of beauty and imaginative power in Mr Gibran’s pages which sink into the consciousness with a kind of Oriental hush that is captivating.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 N 3 ’20 410w
GIBRAN, KAHLIL. Twenty drawings. *$3.50 Knopf 741
20–212
“The drawings in this book are by a Syrian who the publishers tell us ‘has brought the mysticism of the Near East to America and has chosen to throw in his lot with the artists of the Occident in an endeavor to fuse new bonds of interest between the old world and the new.’ This theme of the publishers is further elaborated in an interpretative essay by Miss Alice Raphael which prefaces the volume.”—Nation
Booklist 16:231 Ap ’20
“His drawings call up instantaneously to the memory the tinted pencil sketches of Rodin; they strive for the massiveness of Rodin but attain instead a feminine sweetness of touch and conception. They hint strongly too of the methods and mannerisms of Leonardo da Vinci.” Glen Mullin
+ − Nation 110:sup485 Ap 10 ’20 900w + Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 18 ’20 350w