“The whole output tends to give the impression that the successes themselves are not spontaneous but the mere chance triumphs of a highly self-conscious and wholly artificial method.”
+ – Nation. 83: 288. O. 4, ’06. 370w.
“One of the qualities, indeed which in poetry serves to give him distinction, a remarkably affluent and picturesque imagery, in prose has a tendency to become a defect, rendering the style too poetic and imaginative and the periods over-sustained. This is, indeed the chief limitation to the volume, but a limitation redeemed by the delicate picturing to be found on every page.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 616. O. 6, ’06. 1160w.
“The work of Mr. Cawein is not distinctly lyric, although the verse has rhymthic charm.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 337. O. 6, ’06. 220w.
Cawein, Madison Julius. Vale of Tempe. *$1.50. Dutton.
“The most surprising thing about Mr. Cawein’s work is the even excellence which characterizes so great a quantity of matter.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 126. F. 16, ’06. 270w.
Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de. Don Quixote; tr. with introd. by John Quimby. 2v. $2.50. Crowell.