“It may well enough stand as her monument, for it suggests everything characteristic in her substance and manner.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 352. O. 25, ’06. 930w.
“Although, as we think, its characters do not measure up to their creator’s conception of them, and although we are sometimes dragged rather than swept along with the narrative, the ability of the novel is of so high an order that we agree with Mr. Choate in his belief that it ‘will be another laurel’ in its writer’s ‘well-won crown.’”
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 684. O. 20, ’06. 1320w.
“Its chief charm, alike from the development of a double plot, which is so delicately conceived and carried out with so much artistic finish as to obscure the end before the end comes, lies in the vitality of its characters and their consistently preserved personalities.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 801. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“The book is in many ways the best that Mrs. Craigie has written. It is riper, maturer, firmer. It exhibits a more vivid grasp of things. Much of the pain which strove in her earlier books to hide itself under a mask of flippancy is mercifully gone.”
+ + – Sat. R. 102: 301. S. 8, ’06. 1150w.
“Will not, we think, add to the reputation of Mrs. Craigie; but it will not detract from it. It is a fair example of her strength and her weakness.”
+ + – Spec. 97: 369 S. 15, ’06. 770w.