“An Irish story, charming and wise and hard to classify because it is such a real book.” R. M. Underhill
+ Bookm 51:444 Je ’20 20w
“Her Irish characters are every whit as entertaining, and presumably as truthful as those of Mr Birmingham himself. There are none of the stereotyped good and evil persons of modern fiction here. Everyone is taken as he or she is, and Miss Somerville wastes no valuable time in moralizing over the foibles of her characters. A good story, excellently told.” G. M. H.
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ap 21 ’20 500w
“It is hard—nay, it is impossible—for an alien to write sympathetically or truthfully of things Catholic, especially if there be question of Catholic Ireland.”
− Cath World 111:410 Je ’20 150w + Cleveland p71 Ag ’20 30w + Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 60w
“Alike in description, characterization, and dialogue preserves that unerring felicity of phrase, wide range of sympathy, and intrepid humour which were first exhibited in ‘An Irish cousin.’”
+ Spec 123:898 D 27 ’19 700w
“The authors have written many pleasanter books and many that will be more popular, but their genius has never been more unmistakable than in this picture of the ‘big doctor,’ so sordid and vulgar and crafty and with something so big in him.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p766 D 18 ’19 1100w