“The book ... is rich in interest.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 230w. |
“The story is interesting and cleverly wrought, but is marred by a vein of the sort of sentimentalism that affects the modern amateur sociologist, and by a false sense of values in the social life of the college community.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 42: 378. Je. 16, ’07. 310w. |
“The climax is long in coming, and when it does arrive one fails to see clearly its relation to most of what has gone before.”
| − | Ind. 63: 340. Ag. 8, ’07. 190w. |
“While the book is seriously lacking in unity and coordination, it has features of genuine merit.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 962. Je. 15, ’07. 120w. |
“All the virtue of this story lies in the first of its three parts. Here is an affectionate and reverent study of child-nature, grateful enough in the midst of our sentimental or facetious or condescending manipulations of the child as literary ‘copy.’”