“About the most interesting story that we have come across in a long time. It is something better than interesting—it is suggestive, encouraging and inspiring, the kind of a book that renews one’s trust in the saving grace of the human heart.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 79. F. 10, ’06. 670w.
“A little too much of the atmosphere of the old-fashioned Sunday-school book to be a good story.”
– + Outlook. 82: 94. Ja. 13, ’06. 90w. + R. of Rs. 33: 761. Je. ’06. 40w.
Kimball, George Selwyn. Jay Gould Harmon with Maine folks: a picture of life in the Maine woods. $1.50. Clark.
“Jay Gould Harmon is a fine, manly character, and plays his part among the rough and trying incidents of the Maine logging camps in a way that excites the admiration even of those men born and brought up in a land where fearless courage is an everyday characteristic.... The book contains a little of everything from a love affair to a baseball game.”—Ind.
“There is a noticeable flavor of the dime novel about it.”
– + Ind. 59: 1346. D. 7, ’05. 120w.
“The book shows some merit, but it strikes one that the author would have succeeded very much better in his purpose, if he could have found some other means of bringing out the characteristics of his ‘Down-Easters’ than by setting up in their midst some painfully unreal city folks and drawing theatrical contrasts.”