+ Bookm. 24: 55. S. ’06. 970w.
“Strikes a deeper note and is altogether of more serious quality than most of his productions.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Smith is nothing if not emphatic in delineating the characters of his new story; indeed so emphatic is he that readers quite lose the pleasure of discovering for themselves what the book people stand for. The author’s best work is in suggesting the atmosphere of the narrative.”
+ – Ind. 61: 882. O. 11, ’06. 590w. Lit. D. 33: 594. O. 27, ’06. 300w.
“His craftmanship, perhaps, is even better shown in this work than in most of his other novels.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
“The story goes wider and deeper than any of its predecessors; if with less perfection of construction than the short stories, it is the most ripe of the novels.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 188. Ag. 30, ’06. 350w.
“Mr. Hopkinson Smith has never done better work than in his delineation of Lucy’s character. The master’s hand is to be discerned in every stroke.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.