| + | Outlook. 80: 790. Jl. 22, ‘05. 80w. |
“‘Paris out of doors’ has gathered in the spirit of the French festivity, has caught much of the nature worship that infects that festivity, and in every respect is a delightful and refreshing book.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 350. S. 9, ‘05. 140w. |
“Mr. Smith knows perfectly well how to write good, interesting description, and what more interesting people can you find than the modern Parisian?”
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 254. Ag. ‘05. 80w. |
“This is a very pleasant and readable book. Some of the illustrations are good, but the photographs are not invariably successes.”
| + + — | Spec. 95: 263. Ag. 19, ‘05. 160w. |
Smith, Francis Hopkinson. At close range. [†]$1.50. Scribner.
“This is a collection of nine short stories.... The object of the volume seems to be to bring together some little tales of plain things in life in which Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith discovers a grain of gold ‘at the bottom of every heart-crucible choked with cinders.’ ... He does not confine his stories to any particular stage setting, but wanders, as the digger should do, wherever the gold of life is to be found.”—N. Y. Times.
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith has the right knack, although exception must be taken to his literary style.”