“Mr. Hopkins may draw strongly individualised portraits of professors and ecclesiastics, but when it comes to the street-car conductors and ward politicians he also suggests comparison to the composite photograph.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 24: 118. O. ’06. 480w.
“The chief defect will be found, we think, in the character of the bishop’s daughter.”
+ – Critic. 49: 191. Ag. ’06. 210w.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
– Dial. 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 240w. + Ind. 61: 218. Jl. 26, ’06. 200w.
“There are even touches of satire and moments of insight, but it is best to call it as a whole a pedestrian reflective novel built of melodramatic material.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 274. Ap. 28, ’06. 810w. N. Y. Times. 11: 292. My. 5, ’06. 300w.
“The manner of the book in spite of the drift of the matter to politics and the leaping of social barriers, is dignified to the point of being academic.”