+ + Ind. 61: 1116. N. 8, ’06. 380w.
“The love-story in her new novel is told with such perfect art that it recalls the great ones of literature: yet the materials and the setting are of the simplest and the interest is dependent upon the writer’s art alone.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 230w.
“Mrs. Ward is to be congratulated upon having, in this little tale, escaped from the morbidness and mawkishness which have made much of her work, especially her recent work, a thing popular and to be abhorred by the judicious.”
+ + Nation. 83: 287. O. 4, ’06. 80w.
“The book is written with Mrs. Ward’s usual elevation of feeling and dignity of manner. It shows the same tense quality of imagination, sometimes becoming almost exaggeration, which have always marked her work. There is perhaps less of care and detail in the drawing of her characters, which affect one like unfinished sketches, than one used to find in her work.”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 619. O. 6, ’06. 300w.
“She has never been more out of key with a wholesome way of dealing with life than in this story of a heroic and self-sacrificing woman.”
– Outlook. 84: 708. N. 24, ’06. 120w.
“Her best work next to ‘A singular life.’”