"Mrs. Rice's humor and pathos combine well with Mr. Rice's mastery of diction and deep human understanding."—Milwaukee Journal.
"Each story is notable for beauty of technique ... each has its definite appeal."—Louisville Evening Post (Margaret S. Anderson).
"Each of the stories is of such finished workmanship as to make reading of it an unadulterated pleasure."—Baltimore Sun.
"The book is one of the best of the kind in this year's American fiction."—The Spectator (Portland, Ore.)
"Mr. Rice has grappled with the constructive problems of his time, so one finds them without surprise in this newly adopted vehicle.... Three of his stories have a realism as relentless as Chekov's ... and it goes without saying that his stories are technically admirable."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Mr. Rice so lives through his characters that, as Whitman says, he 'Is that man' of whom he writes."—Pittsburg Sun.
"The same dramatic power and beauty that mark Mr. Rice's lyrics will be found in these prose stories."—Cincinnati Times-Star.
"One seldom finds a book of short stories so satisfying throughout."—Minneapolis Journal.
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