"The book is indeed redolent of country pastures, of sweet smelling pine woods, of happy, glad, unsophisticated Northern life.... It touches chords lying hidden in the depths of the mysteries of race and language, and moves us as, perhaps, no book of the warm but alien south could succeed in doing."--Northern Daily Express.
"The story has enough of originality, and of the foreign element, to make it quite worthy of translation and of general acceptance."--The Illustrated London News, July 23, 1870.
"We cannot speak too highly of the excellence of this translation. It reads as if it had been originally written in English."--The Manchester Weekly Times, June 11, 1870.