“Twenty-three very short chapters present ‘The valley’ and a score or more of its odd and interesting inhabitants. These portraits are the slightest of thumb-nail sketches.”—Dial.
“She has wit and insight and that quality gratefully and instantly recognized, yet difficult to label, the quality of saying just the thing that should be said in just the words that should express it.”
| + + | Acad. 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 220w. |
“They are newspaper articles of a superior sort, and very pleasantly written, and full of the pathos and humours of the village.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 1: 410. Ap. 6. 60w. |
“Daintily executed, and touched with life and reality.”
| + | Dial. 42: 259. Ap. 16, ’07. 230w. |
“The writer has attempted, for the most part, to catch her pose or quality on the wing as it were; and it says much for her skill that she has almost always succeeded. If she fails it is because her sketch is sometimes so slight as to be almost evanescent; but in most cases she has swiftly touched off the humour or the oddity and bathed the people meanwhile in an atmosphere of tenderest banter.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 94. Mr. 22, ’07. 700w. |