“This is a pretty tale of a young girl’s friendship for an older woman whom she, together with a lad who strays into the story, rescues from a trying position and restores to affluence and contentment. Its heroine, a young enthusiast who gives up the opportunity for travel in order to complete her preparation for college, makes the acquaintance of a gracious but retiring woman who lives in a simple home on the property adjoining ruins of a more elaborate mansion. That some shadow hangs over her happiness Elizabeth Houghton quickly discovers, and before long, having taken David Warren into her confidence, she applies herself to solving the mystery. All ends well, however, and the story closes with David and Betsy rejoicing in the good fortune of their elders and preparing to enter upon the college career so eagerly anticipated by both.”—N Y Evening Post
“The love of mystery will be satisfied by this book without the ‘blood-and-thunder’ accompaniments of the average mystery story. There are pleasant character studies. Strongest appeal to girls of teens.”
+ Booklist 16:176 F ’20
“Is a very well-written story, sustaining until the end a mystery, and good comradeship between a boy and girl of high school age.” A. C. Moore
+ Bookm 50:381 N ’19 40w
“A chapter to which boys would listen with delight since it gives color and life to that period of our history following the war with the Barbary pirates, ‘The tree of jade’ is so well told as to completely reconcile the reader to the interruption of the main narrative.” A. C. Moore
+ Bookm 51:91 Mr ’20 150w
“The style is vague and indefinite.”
− Boston Transcript p8 Mr 10 ’20 160w + Cleveland p80 Ag ’20 50w + N Y Evening Post p3 D 20 ’19 220w