– Critic. 48: 571. Je. ’06. 100w.
“Grips us by sheer brute strength, and almost makes us forget how devoid it is of anything like grace or delicacy of workmanship.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 40: 364. Je. 1, ’06. 220w. + Ind. 60: 1547. Je. 28, ’06. 280w.
“In turning his material into the form of the novel, however, the writer has won no success other than that of maintaining a high sensational tension.”
+ – Nation. 82: 407. My. 17, ’06. 250w.
“He is chiefly intent on his story. That’s a thing full of dramatic incidents and dramatic figures. If the hero and heroine are less effective than the others, that is one of the proved penalties of the dignity.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 600w.
“The young novelist knows the men he writes of, and he knows, also, the place in which he has located them.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 244. Ap. 14, ’06. 600w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 382. Je. 16, ’06. 270w. + Outlook. 83: 501. Je. 30, ’06. 190w.
“It is distinctly a man’s book, just as the north was a man’s country.”