SOURCE: "Fantasticated," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 2053, June 7, 1941, p. 273.

In the following review, the critic finds inconsistent quality among the stories in Presenting Moonshine but considers some to be representative of Collier's best writing, calling them "spacious and artful and . . . nicely matched by . . . [their demure precision of language. "]

Mr. John Collier is something of a rare bird. He does not make himself heard frequently, but his note is a distinctive one. Presenting Moonshine is a collection of twenty-four short stories, and as a collection it has about twenty-four times as much character as most such volumes. His is an original and highly amusing turn of fancy, delicately frivolous and blandly sophisticated by turns and always susceptible to some salutary moral lesson or other. The larger number of the stories are feats of light satirical fantasy, which conjure a guileful philosophy of human nature from such useful expedients...