“While ‘Fenwick’s career’ may fail of an instant appeal to ‘the general,’ we think it attains a height hitherto unreached by its author. She has poured into it her deepest thought, her ripest wisdom, and it stands to-day the noblest expression of her genius.” M. Gordon Pryor. Rice.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 385. My. 5, ’06. 2330w.
“Mrs. Ward handles each delicate situation with her characteristic skill.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 150w.
“Is full of talent, but stops short of being a work of genius.”
+ Outlook. 83: 501. Je. 30, ’06. 240w. + + – Pub. Opin. 40: 660. My. 26, 06. 1380w. R. of Rs. 33: 762. Je. ’06. 70w.
“They should be set down as fundamentally inartistic and unedifying.”
– Sat. R. 101: 725. Je. 9, ’06. 1500w. + + Spec. 96: 757. My. 12, ’06. 1370w.
“It is a piece of sincere writing, gripping the reader without appeal to literary tricks or falsetto sentiment.”
+ + World To-Day. 11: 765. Jl. ’06. 120w.