SOURCE: "Books and Things," in William Faulkner: Early Prose and Poetry, Jonathan Cape, 1963, pp. 71-3.

In the following essay, originally published in the University of Mississippi student paper, a young Faulkner gives In April Once a generally favorable review.

We are presenting this week a review by William S. [sic] Falkner of In April Once by W. A. Percy, Yale University Press; later we shall give a discussion of some of the poets who are representative of the spirit of the present in the form and content of their verse.

In April Once by W. A. Percy

Mr. Percy is a native Mississippian, a graduate of the University of the South and of the Harvard Law School. He was a member of the Belgian Relief Commission in the early days of the war, then served as a lieutenant attached to the 37th Division. He now lives in Greenville...