“Mr. White has written a big and satisfying book made up of the elements of American life as we know them––the familiar humor, sorrows, ambitions, crimes, sacrifices––revealed to us with peculiar freshness and vigor in the multitude of human actions and by the crowd of delightful people who fill his four-hundred odd pages.... It deserves a high place among the novels that deal with American life. No recent American novel save one has sought to cover so broad a canvas, or has created so strong an impression of ambition and of sincerity.”––Chicago Evening Post.
“The great fictional expression of this mighty Twentieth Century altruistic movement is sure to be something in kind and in degree akin to Mr. White’s ’A Certain Rich Man.’”––Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
“An American novel, home-grown in home soil, vital with homely American motives, and fragrant with homely American memories, Mr. White has certainly achieved.”––New York Times.
Dr. Washington Gladden considered this book of sufficient importance to take it and the text from which the title was drawn as his subject for an entire sermon, in the course of which he said: “In its ethical and social significance it is the most important piece of fiction that has lately appeared in America. I do not think that a more trenchant word has been spoken to this nation since ’Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’ And it is profoundly to be hoped that this book may do for the prevailing Mammonism what ’Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ did for slavery.”
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