+ Atlan. 97: 52. Ja. ’06. 630w.
“It is Mrs. Wharton’s great achievement, in a book where all is fine, that she makes us see and sympathize with the true distinction in a woman who on the surface has little else than beauty and charm.” E. E. Hale, jr.
+ + + Bookm. 22: 364. D. ’05. 1190w. Critic. 48: 463. My. ’06. 260w.
“It is a story elaborated in every detail to a high degree of refinement, and evidently a product of the artistic conscience. Having paid this deserved tribute to its finer characteristics, we are bound to add that it is deficient in interest.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 40: 15. Ja. 1, ’06. 720w.
Reviewed by Charles Waldstein.
North American. 182: 840. Je. ’06 and 183: 125. Jl. ’06. 5670 + 4890w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + North American. 182: 922. Je. ’06. 400w.
“The book is one of the few novels which can claim to rank as literature.”