“Dr. Weir Mitchell contrives, as only an accomplished writer could contrive, to bring into his little novel, mystery, conspiracy, comicality, diplomacy and romance, with probability enough to keep unbelief at bay.”

+ Nation. 82: 43. My. 24, ’06. 170w.

“A very clever little skit.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 327. My. 19, ’06. 220w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 388. Je. 16, ’06. 180w.

“The book is not quite up to Dr. Mitchell’s self-imposed standard.”

+ – Pub. Opin. 40: 711. Je. 9, ’06. 100w. R. of Rs. 33: 755. Je. ’06. 50w.

Mitchell, Silas Weir, ed. Pearl. *$1. Century.

The translation into modern English of a fourteenth-century middle English lyric.

+ Critic. 49: 92. Jl. ’06. 120w.