+ + Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 120w.
“The book is full of delicately handled studies of the lights and shadows that fall across the existence of the modern workaday world.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 120w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 440. Jl. 7, ’06. 290w. + Outlook. 83: 142. My. 19, ’06. 70w. + Sat. R. 101: 794. Je. 23, ’06. 120w.
“A collection of short stories, which are even better from a point of view of comprehensive description than her novels.”
+ Spec. 96: 793. My. 19, ’06. 280w.
Blundell, Mary E. (Sweetman) (Mrs. Francis Blundell; M. E. Francis, pseuds.). Wild wheat: a Dorset romance. †$1.50. Longmans.
Another tale of the West country, which “carries its readers’ thoughts far afield on to the blue hills and into the wild woods.” (Spec.) “It has more of passion and sorrow in it than most of her romances, but is all the stronger for this, while there is enough of the humorous and cheerful to balance the whole. The love story is sweet and wholesome.” (Outlook.)
“‘Wild wheat’ is an admirable story and Peter’s character is finely handled, but in general interest it does not reach the level of some other Dorset tales.”
+ Acad. 69: 1130. O. 28, ’05. 580w.