“Is not up to Miss Glasgow’s level, but this seems largely due to her trespassing upon an alien field.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 491. Mr. 31, ’06. 690w.
“Its reach is greater than that of its predecessors; its author has gone down into the deep places, and the distinction, the lift that is all its own is that in the last analysis it is the apotheosis of goodness.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 32. Ja. 20, ’06. 2210w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 384. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.
Reviewed by Louise Collier Willcox.
+ + North American. 182: 922. Je. ’06. 400w.
“There are broader contrasts of character than in ‘The house of mirth,’ though not quite the same sureness of touch, the same sense of intimacy with the most illusive aspects of a well-defined though loosely ordered social group.”
+ – Outlook. 82: 756. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.
“All of these [four groups of characters] are faithfully and well wrought, and each adds its increment of genuine substance to the sum total effect of an admirable book.”
+ Reader. 7: 448. Mr. ’06. 680w. + R. of Rs. 33: 758. Je. ’06. 80w. + – Sat. R. 101: 625. My. 19, ’06. 100w.