SOURCE: Cloete, Stuart. “Faith in A Mad World.” Saturday Review of Literature 23, no. 6 (30 November 1940): 6.

In the following review, Cloete comments how With Love and Irony is a book that balances well the reality and mysticism of its' characters.

This book [With Love and Irony] is something new. New, because the title expresses the book, which is written with love and irony. New, because out of China comes a work that is almost French in feeling, bearing the French stamp of delicate irony, of a beautiful and subtly disguised bitterness, of inverted insult, of compliments which contain not a thorn, like a rose, but a dagger that tears the veil from the false sophistication which we have been conditioned into accepting. Today a strange thing has happened. We suddenly see ourselves, American, British, and free Chinese, as brothers. We can see a new and true humanity. Or do I...