“He tells it for his young daughter’s edification, and has hit on a medium—his own swaggering prose and a sound, swinging, rough-and-ready metre—that suits both the matter and his now familiar manner.”
+ Ath p1411 D 26 ’19 70w
“This is a good Christmas book for the incorrigibly romantic, young or old.” Margaret Ashmun
+ Bookm 52:347 D ’20 120w
“A pretty manner Mr Farnol has adopted for the telling of his latest story. Accepting the artifice for what it is one cannot deny that it makes good entertainment.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p4 O 6 ’20 540w
“One of the most charming and delightfully whimsical fictional products that have come from the presses this year.”
+ N Y Times p16 N 28 ’20 740w + Springf’d Republican p7a N 21 ’20 360w
“The choice of the genre is a very happy one for Mr Farnol; it admits of his wearing his heart on his sleeve and carrying his tongue in his cheek at one and the same time. In fact, this is such a tale as any father—did he but dispose of Mr Farnol’s vocabulary, humour and invention—would tell his daughter, providing her liberally with marvels to her taste and amusing himself with Shakespearian allusions that would escape her.”