| + | Atlan. 100: 134. Jl. ’07. 290w. |
“The reader who skips a single story in the collection runs the risk of losing something that he would have liked quite as well as those he read, if not rather better.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 26: 79. S. ’07. 530w. |
“It is with the same humor that he still graces his stories; but there has crept into his work some other qualities which give it a worth and charm that it did not have before.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 880. O. 10, ’07. 370w. |
“For stories of their kind, are fine.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 766. My. 11, ’07. 80w. |
“‘O. Henry’ is actually that rare bird, of which we so often hear false reports—a born story-teller.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 300w. |
“It is not to much to say that O. Henry achieves the Carlylian miracle of taking the roofs off—lifting the lid—and shows what lies beneath.”