“The impression of the entire collection is one of discouragement.” Mary Moss.

+ – Bookm. 23: 435. Je. ’06. 690w.

“Is a distinctly stimulating book.”

+ Critic. 49: 93. Jl. ’06. 60w. + Ind. 60: 1047. My. 3, ’06. 170w.

“Upon the whole, they do not measure up to what we have learned to expect from him.”

+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 334. My. 26, ’06. 280w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 140w.

“As a whole the stories will strike most readers as not up to the level of Judge Grant’s best work.”

+ – Outlook. 83: 814. Ag. 4, ’06. 130w.

Grant, Robert. Orchid. †$1.25. Scribner.

“You merely feel that he is stating a condition, never that he tells you the story of one person or group of people.” Mary Moss.