+ Ath. 1906, 1: 729. Je. 16. 480w.
“The pages and chapters which are devoted to a portrayal of local customs and modes of thought, careful and vivid though they are, tend to obscure the real issue of the story rather than to elucidate it.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 24: 117. O. ’06. 530w.
“[This] English version is carelessly made.” Wm. M. Payne.
– Dial. 41: 113. S. 1. ’06. 650w. + – Lond. Times. 5: 217. Je. 15, ’06. 600w.
“That which is eminently unsatisfactory besides the title, however ... is the absence of any biographical introduction.”
– Nation. 83: 141. Ag. 16, ’06. 360w.
“A powerful drama of humanity.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 494. Ag. 11, ’06. 1120w.
“There is a profound depression over the whole book, though the literary art which presents it is, as usual with Sudermann, full of force and of fine restraint.”