+ + Ind. 61: 1160. N. 15, ’06. 90w.
“The new book is all of a piece; lifelike but not commonplace, exact but exalted; it gives work to the mind and arouses the emotions. Its structure is orderly and strong—preparation, catastrophe, resolution—and the author’s manner of expressing himself, though it wearies us with its trick of repetition, is here never smart nor feeble. He sees clearly and tells vividly.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 277. Ag. 10, ’06. 440w.
“This is a story which can hardly be taken lightly. It is composed with a deliberate and painstaking intensity. If the record is ‘not pleasant,’ neither is it morbid.”
+ Nation. 83: 262. S. 27, ’06. 550w.
“He has skill in the weaving of the tale, but he lacks deplorably in taste, in the sense of proportion which should unerringly choose and prune each incident with reference to its importance in the finished whole.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 564. S. 15, ’06. 630w.
“The subject is a delicate one, but handled with skill, and the characters are powerfully portrayed.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 140w.
“It gains in strength as it proceeds to a final solution.”