SOURCE: A review of Green Shoots, in The Bookman, London, Vol. LXVI, No. 392, May, 1924, p. 130.

In the following review, the critic lauds Morand's powers of observation and feel for language in Green Shoots.

It is said that Monsieur Morand has been an official at the French Embassy in London. If he served under Cambon they were in one respect in very striking contrast with each other; for the Ambassador, admirable diplomat as he was, did not in his more than twenty years at Albert Gate master more than a few words of our language. Morand has the very soul of it. In these three studies of young ladies who, as Mr. Walkley in his entertaining preface [to Green Shoots] very truly says, are remarkable, he evidently wrote in his own tongue, for we are given the name of a translator. Possibly the rudiments of the language bore him...