The Philadelphia North American says:
"A charming and graceful romance, 'Antonia' is in some respects an unusual story. Not that it is pretentious; rather because it is not so, but fresh and simple instead. Here is a story of colonial times which, instead of being filled with the mincing archaisms and strutting pomposities of the usual historical novel, has caught something of the spirit of wide-eyed wonder that held men spellbound at the tales of this new world when it was indeed new and marvellous—of the longing for freedom that drove them beyond seas and into the savage West, there to carve out new realms from the shaggy wilderness. 'The Frisians shall be free as long as the wind shall blow in the clouds and as long as the world shall endure' is the keynote of the story; for its scene is New Amsterdam and its characters the sturdy Frisians of that colony. The hero is one of the errant adventurers from the Lowlands; and the account of his love for the wilful Antonia, as difficult and capricious as she is charming, and his slow winning of her through the tangle of misunderstandings and adventures that beset him, makes a story of vivid and unhackneyed interest. In short, 'Antonia' is romance of the kind that it is a delight to find."
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Transcriber's Notes:
One occurrence of "in-doors" changed to "indoors" to be consistent with other usage in original.
"upturned" changed to "up-turned" to be consistent with other usage.
Several other words appear twice, once hyphenated and once not. All of these were left as in the original.