“Naturally the interest is of the quiet rather than of the exciting order, but the situations are well thought out and the human interest and humor of sound quality.”
+ Outlook 126:333 O 20 ’20 90w
“Here is something to be read by both the new generation and the old, for it links them together, with a fine understanding of both.” D. W. Webster
+ Pub W 98:661 S 18 ’20 240w
“The development of the narrator’s character is, to our mind, particularly well done—a very difficult task, and taken altogether the author more than justifies the high opinion we hold of his abilities.”
+ Sat R 130:40 Jl 10 ’20 90w
“The book tends more to reflection than to entertainment, and is considerably above the usual run of modern novels.”
+ Spec 125:408 S 25 ’20 280w
“Mr Aumonier in this work, while displaying a good deal of keenness alike of observation and thought, fails in the essential task of creating people that impress us as individual and significant. Mr Aumonier’s touch, however, is incisive and dramatic. And, in intention at least, he is not commonplace.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a S 12 ’20 240w