“Is written with more than ordinary vigor and knowledge of the facts of everyday living.”
+ R. of Rs. 33: 126. Ja. ’06. 40w.
“A really remarkable and original book.”
+ + Spec. 94: 751. My. 20, ’05. 330w.
Cripps, Arthur Shearly. Magic casements. $1.25. Dutton.
“The casements so Arthur Shearly Cripps tells us, look outward upon a ‘beautiful and restless England,’ look inward upon ‘her many-coloured faith.’ The magic we can aver is the tinge of imagination, the glamour of romance which he has succeeded in throwing over the little happenings of which we catch fleeting glimpses through those casements.” (N. Y. Times.) “A man escapes by the hanging of a dead bear instead of him: an old woman who goes to pray for her son loses her offering, and sees a true miracle, to the horror and instant conversion of a wicked priest, who was about to show her a false one for somebody else’s money; a a gold coin looks up in the face of a person who likes gold coins too much. These things are attractive and there is a touch of power in ‘The orb of terror,’ and ‘Dead in April’; of beauty in ‘The black-faced lamb,’ and in the end of ‘Crimson for snow-white.’” (Lond. Times.)
“Mr. Cripps has made a pretty success out of indifferent material.”
+ – Acad. 69: 1264. D. 2, ’06. 320w. + Lond. Times. 4: 359. O. 27, ’06. 280w.
“The coloring in these bits of writing is of too opalescent a sort to win great popularity.”