Rice, Cale Young. [Plays and lyrics.] $2. McClure.
“A stout and very handsome volume containing the better of the author’s early lyrics, many new ones, and two plays in verse, ‘Yolanda’ and ‘David.’”—Dial.
“To our taste, Mr. Rice’s lyric work in this volume far outvalues his dramatic. There is vital motive, touchingly rendered.” Edith M. Thomas.
+ Critic. 49: 219. S. ’06. 310w.
“His work in this larger compass and maturer form deserves far more praise than could be accorded to those first fruits and gives us much sincere and conscientious workmanship. The old straining for effect is still apparent although far less so than formerly.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + – Dial. 41: 68. Ag. 1, ’06. 260w.
“If Mr. Rice had used his brain a little more, not only on ‘minutiæ’, but on the meaning of his poems, his book would have been half as long and twice as good.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 225. Je. 22, ’06. 470w.
“Occasionally he writes in simplicity as well as sincerity, without labored linguistic bravuras, or moody excesses: at such times, if not impeccable, he is often pleasurably poignant.”