“If Paul seems a special creation made to fit Allegra’s need, why quarrel with him? Are we not left with the conviction that here is a really happy ending to a story?”
+ − Boston Transcript p6 Mr 24 ’20 260w
“A number of minor characters are very well drawn.”
+ Cleveland p50 My ’20 70w
“All the minor characters, in fact, are skillfully portrayed, with any number of quaint and understanding little touches which make ‘Allegra’ very agreeable reading—the more agreeable because the author has had the good taste and good sense to avoid the conventional ‘happy ending.’”
+ N Y Times 25:71 F 8 ’20 440w + Sat R 130:380 N 6 ’20 100w
“Altogether it is a slight but pleasing little story without any probing into psychology or any tremendous conflict of forces.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Ap 11 ’20 160w
“Allegra, a little hard and egotistical, and passionately devoted to her art, is well studied. And the whole tale (which moves among well-bred people throughout) is on a good level, though we think a little below that attained in other books by the author.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p594 O 23 ’19 100w