“The interest is smartly whipped up, and kept spinning and humming gaily to the last page.”
+ Acad. 70: 550. Je. 9, ’06. 380w.
“A little more of the handsome Californian, and a little less violet teas and cat lunches would have made it a better balanced book.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 540. Jl. ’06. 310w.
“A frothy sort of cleverness is the chief attribute of the story, but its thin vein of wit is exhausted long before the end is reached, and nothing more substantial is found to take its place.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 41: 37. Jl. 16, ’06. 240w.
“The intent is to present a friendly picture of real American life, to hold up the mirror to ‘society’, and to provide a sort of guide book of America’s typical institutions; but it’s all done British visitors must be warned not to take it upon such meagre knowledge of the facts that seriously.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 319. My. 19, ’06. 690w.
“It is a pleasantly written narrative, very frothy.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 190w.