“Done in the author’s usual delightful manner.”

+ +A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 135. My. ’07.

“Unhappily, these sociological criticisms are not conveyed in an interesting form of fiction. We cannot be absorbed in Mr. Homos’s love affair with an attractive American widow, and we are thrown back for diversion on his strictures on American conditions.”

+ −Ath. 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 250w.

“He is writing, not a thesis on the future economics of the world at large, but a kindly satire, a sort of twentieth century parable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+Bookm. 25: 394. Je. ’07. 270w.

Reviewed by A. Schade van Westrum.

Bookm. 25: 434. Je. ’07. 1230w.
+Ind. 62: 1207. My. 23, ’07. 670w.

“In this novel, dealing with a theme peculiarly congenial to him, we have an example of Mr. Howells’s style arrived at its perihelion.”

+ +Lit. D. 34: 885. Je. 1, ’07. 330w.