“There is much strength in this vivid narrative, combined with humor, realistic description, and incisive characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 262. Ap. 16, ’06. 250w. + – Ind. 60: 1224. My. 24, ’06. 430w.
“The style is crisp, virile, incisive; and although there may be suggestions of Bret Harte, perhaps even of ‘The Virginian’ here and there, this is yet a new story, strongly told, with a character all its own.”
+ + Nation. 82: 183. Mr. 1, ’06. 340w.
“Logic is not A. B. Ward’s strong point, but she ... writes a readable story and one that keeps the attention right up to the last word.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 158. Mr. 17, ’06. 1100w. + Outlook. 82: 478. F. 24, ’06. 110w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 187. F. 10, ’06. 130w. R. of Rs. 33: 756. Je. ’06. 80w.
Bailey, Liberty Hyde. Outlook to nature. **$1.25. Macmillan.
“We see that the writer is a passionate lover of nature with a strain of the poet in him, but we do not always find his treatment convincing.”
+ – Nature. 74: 315. Ag. 2, ’06. 430w. + R. of Rs. 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 60w.
Bailey, Liberty Hyde. Plant-breeding: being lectures upon the amelioration of domestic plants. **$1.25. Macmillan.