“Undramatic, but interesting.”
+ Booklist 16:314 Je ’20 + Lit D p102 O 23 ’20 1200w
“Mrs Spofford is not by any means a great craftsman, her limitations are quite evident, but within her power—and she is never unduly anxious to achieve what is beyond her—she provides some interesting and entertaining bits of fiction.”
+ − N Y Evening Post p2 Ap 10 ’20 480w
“The series of short stories which makes up this chronicle contains nothing particularly new or striking, but the tales have quite a good deal of verisimilitude, and some of the characters are likable.”
+ N Y Times 25:198 Ap 18 ’20 280w Outlook 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 20w
“Mrs Spofford has finely and strongly delineated a number of choice spirits here whom one will not easily forget. She has also incorporated much of the quiet humor of this type of people, and, all in all, has presented here not an especially great book but a very interesting one.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a My 9 ’20 250w
SPRING RICE, SIR CECIL ARTHUR. Poems. *$3 Longmans 821