“The book is a curious mingling of keen-eyed observation, great naturalness in narrative and dialogue, and exasperating artificiality of construction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + − | Bookm. 26: 80. S. ’07. 440w. |
“A story marked by unusual powers of penetrating observation.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 220w. |
“This is a short story which made up of its mind to grow into a novel, and got spoiled in the process.”
| − | Nation. 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 300w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 180w. |
“The author’s management of the dialect is commendable, for she does not overdo the matter and put in dialect for its own sake.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 360w. |
“As long as she portrays the Mennonites, or the ordinary Dutch, she has a field unique and worthy of her talents, but in introducing outsiders from the gay world she strikes as ordinary a note as did the fascinating Jubilee singers of long ago when they tried to sing our concert pieces.”
| − | Outlook. 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 100w. |