“The author’s comments on it all are cleverly phrased, with occasional touches of irony which lend spice to the story. She is a realist, unspoiled by pessimism.”
+ N Y Times p22 N 14 ’20 950w
“In construction and the centralizing of interest in one large situation the novel is less successful than some of its predecessors.”
+ − Outlook 126:690 D 15 ’20 60w
“Her localism, as always, is faultless. But it is in characterization, the ultimate test, that she achieves most. Her Nettie Stieffel is as actual and unescapable a person as Dreiser’s Jennie Gerhardt—or her own Jennie Cushing.” H. W. Boynton
+ |Review 3:623 D 22 ’20 440w
“The story is not so organic as Mrs Watts’s best, but will arouse a considerable degree of interest among readers.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 2 ’21 670w
WAUGH, ALEC. Loom of youth; with a preface by Thomas Seccombe. *$1.90 (1½c) Doran
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