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“An American publisher of brains and heart tells an Irish mother and her son in London his experience with a crippled, original, and brilliant hack writer in that city, whose work, rejected at home, finds acceptance here, and to whom America becomes a symbol of free, generous, brotherly life.”—Outlook.
“Mr. Kinross has humour, and he has irony. This work is the work of a man who can rise to a considerable achievement. He has pathos also.”
| + + | Ath. 1907, 2: 13. Jl. 6. 330w. |
“Full of a quality that comes near being charm, but fails just short of it. The style is too self-conscious, and the whole scheme lacks simplicity, so that the mind is taxed by its suggestiveness.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 355. Je. 1, ’07, 220w. |
“The story is wholly off the well-defined lines of fiction, is told in an unhackneyed way, with a vein of deep feeling and of unforced humor. There is a deeper strain in the book for those who read it with imagination; for it is safer to venture the assertion that Mr. Kinross had before him not only the America of gross materialism, but America as a symbol of great and beautiful ideas.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 116. My. 18, ’07. 270w. | |
| + | Spec. 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 250w. |
Kipling, Rudyard. [Puck, of Pook’s hill.] †$1.50. Doubleday.