Mr. Hergesheimer's "Java Head" is a novel of excellent workmanhip. Its picture of life in Salem, Massachusetts, in the days of the East India trade in sailing vessels, presents a new and interesting American background. It is a novel of skill and finesse-unpleasant and decidedly unconvincing in its tragic and sordid finish. Yet one recognizes that here is one of the very few skillful craftsmen of the modern American school of novelists.--The Woman Citizen, Volume 4
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