| + — | Dial. 39: 64. Ag. 1, ‘05. 220w. |
“For all the intellectual energy and sincerity of Miss Branch’s work, and its frank preoccupation with the more passionate issues of life, it never ceases to be finely feminine in a certain lurking wistfulness and tenderness in little things.”
| + + | Nation. 81: 16. Jl. 6, ‘05. 750w. |
“Miss Branch is extremely fortunate in her descriptions of life in studios and courts, and strikes a deeply poetic note in her unpretentious drama of the time of Watteau which she calls ‘The shoes that danced.’”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 406. Je. 17, ‘05. 340w. |
Brandenburg, Broughton. Imported Americans: the story of the experiences of a disguised American and his wife studying the immigration question. [**]$1.60. Stokes.
“The author, a newspaper correspondent, with his wife, lived for a time in the Italian quarter of New York. Thence they go in the steerage to Italy, and make a study of the districts from which emigration is most pronounced.... Then with a group of Sicilians, Mr. and Mrs. Brandenburg return in the guise of immigrants, observing the snares laid for the credulous incomer whose great fear is that he may be kept out of America, suffering the ill treatment meted out to steerage passengers on board ship, and learning the laws of this country are constantly evaded.... The revelations made of the debasement of our naturalization papers furnish food for thought.” (Ann. Am. Acad.)
“The most interesting and important study yet made of present-day immigration into the United States.”
| + + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 125. Ja. ‘05. 320w. |
“A most interesting narrative of, really, the epitomized experiences of thousands of Italian wayfarers.”