Ath p194 F 6 ’20 90w + Booklist 17:157 Ja ’21
“The scheme of the story is very good, but it is so tangled up in verbiage and moralizing that one loses interest, and wishes the author had made another of the group her mouthpiece.”
+ − Boston Transcript p7 D 4 ’20 230w
“It is a capital tale, quite novel in its plot and incident, and with amusing character depiction as well as the thrill of adventure.”
+ Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w
“The narrative is set forth interestingly and with some humor.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 170w
“She shows her tact in the touches of individuality that she gives to characters who have to be drawn broadly. So much is she in sympathy with them, and so clearly does she see the situations in which they find themselves, that they come to respond by creating their own difficulties for her to write about. This seems to be the secret of her fertility of invention. For a lady not in her first book she is most prodigal of her good things.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p85 F 5 ’20 630w
GROGAN, GERALD. William Pollok, and other tales. *$1.50 (2c) Lane