+ – Acad. 70: 551. Je. 9, ’06. 350w.
“There is much that is admirable about the volume. But the prologue strikes the wrong note.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 23: 415. Je. ’06. 640w.
“It is so good that one wishes it were better. Miss Frothingham should studiously avoid the morbid and overstrained effects which are her most serious menace as a novelist.”
+ – Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 130w.
“The great army of happy folk who need no warning will find its picture of Boston as accurate as the picture of New York in ‘The house of mirth.’”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 199. Mr. 31, ’06. 210w.
“The story is interesting, well constructed, and written with charm and spirit.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 254. Ap. 21, ’06. 560w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 130w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.