“The adventures are very little adventures and dreadfully dull.” K. M.
− Ath p616 N 5 ’20 240w
“Gay, crisp comedy shot through with a thread of genial satire.”
+ Booklist 17:119 D ’20
“The adventures of Girlie Cass may not be morally significant to a universe in the throes of parturition, but they surely are jolly good fun, as Elfreda would say.”
+ Boston Transcript p11 D 1 ’20 520w Lit D p95 O 23 ’20 1400w
“‘The adventurous lady’ is perhaps more nearly akin to the history of the delectable Araminta than to any other of Mr Snaith’s books—a social comedy, witty and amusing, light and sparkling as sunflecked foam. All this it is, and yet more—an admirable illustration of what a really good writer can do with a well-worn and somewhat trite plot.”
+ N Y Times p18 S 19 ’20 850w
“The tale is mildly amusing, but it is a pity that the author of ‘The sailor’ should think it worth while to write such a trifling farce.”