“The story has many appealing qualities,—its gayety, sympathy, humour, and lifelikeness; and perhaps to American readers one of its chiefest charms will be that it is so thoroughly English,—as English as a hedge-rose or a bit of pink hawthorne,—yet, with all its local colour, sounding the human and universal note.” Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Foreword to book.
“It is easy to imagine many parties both in the school room and downstairs where these sketches will be read aloud and approved enthusiastically.”
+ Acad. 70: 288. Mr. 24, ’06. 210w. + Critic. 48: 572. Je. ’06. 60w.
“In the main, the book is rather about children than for them. Children ... would never notice the delicacy, the strength, and the sympathy with which Mrs. Harker has worked.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 104. Mr. 23, ’06. 450w. + Nation. 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 30w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 193. Mr. 31, ’06. 420w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 387. Je. 16, ’06. 140w. + Outlook. 82: 810. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.
“The way in which the four children are differentiated and each endowed with a well-marked individuality is extremely clever. In a book which strikes so true a note all through the critic may be forgiven for wishing that the simplicity of the original keynote has been preserved to the concluding sentence.”
+ + – Spec. 96: 623. Ap. 21, ’06. 700w.
Harnack, (Carl Gustav) Adolf. Expansion of Christianity in the first three centuries; tr. and ed. by James Moffatt. 2v. *$3. Putnam.
“There are certain dangers into which the modern aggressive historian is apt to fall, and does fall if Harnack and Knopf are to be taken as fair representatives of the class. If he has successfully found his way out of the swamp of sectarian prejudice on the one hand, he seems likely to wander, on the other, into the dense forest of conjecture, wherein he will see all sorts of fantastic forms in the dim light.” Andrew C. Zenos.