Grant, Percy Stickney. Ad matrem, and other poems. Kimball.
“Something akin to Miltonic richness meets us in the outset of ‘Ad Matrem,’ in the lines depicting the rout of the Greek godheads, before the Lux mundi shining over Judean hills.” (Critic.) “The collection of poems is not large, but it is stamped throughout with elevation of tone, dignity, and often charm of manner.” (Outlook.)
Reviewed by Edith M. Thomas.
+ Critic. 48: 272. Mr. ’06. 260w. + – N. Y. Times. 11: 277. Ap. 28, ’06. 160w.
“It shows unusual feeling for the resources of difficult meters and unusual skill in handling them.”
+ Outlook. 83: 283. Je. 2, ’06. 500w.
Grant, Robert. Law-breakers and other stories. †$1.25. Scribner.
Besides the title story there are six others in the group,—“George and the dragon,” “An exchange of courtesies,” “The romance of a soul,” “Against his judgment,” “A surrender,” and “Across the way.” They “belong to the literature of exposure.... Each story has a definite problem, or rather thesis, clearly stated and logically argued.... The question argued in the title story is one that might well form a topic for a debating society. It is this: Is a man who cheats the custom house officer so fundamentally untrustworthy in character that a good woman should not trust her life to him? For the particulars in the case and the verdict of the author we must refer our readers to the book.” (Ind.)