The Bookman—"An idyll, and a very pretty one. In The Red Badge of Courage and Maggie there is an intenser force; but in this slighter effort we feel the same directness, the same true reading of the workings of the mind, the same contempt for conventions and clap-trap sentiment."
The Sketch—"There is a strong human interest in it, and a boyish vigour which is refreshing."
The Scotsman—"It is very light, very amusing, and very American. The literary touch is singularly deft and felicitous, the strokes playful but unerring.... The treatment has the distinction which only a vivid imagination, a fine dramatic faculty and an intuitive perception of the deeper things of human nature can give to a book."
Manchester Guardian—"It is invigorating to follow the breezy mountain life up in the pine woods.... The book abounds in those felicitous descriptions and bright dialogues of which Mr. Crane is master.... One more delightful dog is added to the heroes of fiction."
Daily Mail—"We would not for the world have it other than it is.... In its short tantalisingly abrupt chapters, the tale gives the history of a wooing, a history clear, simple, and often sparkling as a rill of spring water."
MAGGIE: A Child of the Streets
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The Literary World—"Contains all the force, all the power, and all the reality which Mr. Crane has proved his pen to possess."