This is a new and strange book, new, because it comes in a way a book was never known before to 'have come, and strange, because the stuff that has come in this way before has been so unworth publishing. Two women had been amusing themselves with the Ouija board for some time. In July, 1913, "the pointer suddenly became endowed with an unusual agility, and with great rapidity presented this introduction, 'Many moons ago I lived. Again I come. Patience Worth my name.'" The book contains the conversations, stories, proverbs, poetry and prose that have been delivered through Mrs. Curran by "Patience Worth," a second personality. Mrs. Curran is alleged to be a woman of refinement and culture, who had up to the time of this first deliverance made no pretension to writing. She, however, lives in company with people who have shown literary talent. The author is editorial director of the St. Louis Globe Democrat, which is a sufficient guaranty of the honesty and literary appreciation which he claims for the contents and quality of the book. There are two aspects from which the book may be viewed, the psychological (not psychic) phenomenon of a person writing connected discourse on the Ouija board and the literary character of the productions that have been made. The author dismisses the first point of view as being of small interest, with the affirmation that the phenomenon of writing on a Ouija board has become so common as to excite little interest or comment, and he devotes his time to the literary productions themselves, their quality and content. The first point of view is the proper one. What is needed is a psycho-analytical treatment of Mrs. Curran, and of the author, too, for that matter. The psycho-analyst must find the author "tinged" with mysticism; there are unmistakable marks of thorough acquaintance on his part with the literature of "psychic phenomena." Mrs. Curran should have a careful and penetrating scrutiny by the psycho-analyst. In her he must find the secret of these productions many of which have real quality and worth. Their value merits publication. But as a double personality Mrs. Curran does not present such novel features as are claimed for her. While it is usual for second personalities to appear in such maudlin guises as French doctors, or Indians wenches, Patience Worth, speaking in archaic forms of speech and sixteenth-century English, presents only a new and more respectable guise. The critical reader of her productions cannot avoid the annoyances at her archaisms more than the usual visitor at a spiritual séance can escape annoyance at the dialectic gabble of the French doctor. The reviewer believes that Mrs. Curran is quite capable of producing such things in herself. That she should choose to appear in such a guise is the point of interest for morbid psychology. Her real soul seems stricken with fright at appearing upon the stage of literary activity and so finds in a guise greater ease of acting. Many actors can do their best work only behind some assumed mask and many literary people must adopt a nom de plume. –The Homiletic Review, Vol. 72 [1916]