| + | Bookm. 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 360w. |
“The story is deeply moving and is related with knowledge of the life depicted and a rare degree of artistic strength.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 376. Je. 16, ’07. 370w. |
“A charming story, charmingly told.”
| + | Ind. 63: 219. Jl. 25, ’07. 280w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 314. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w. |
“We cannot but be grateful to Mr. Oxenham for remembering mercy and for permitting his readers to close a novel of unusual sincerity and strength with minds less penetrated by the wrongs and the anguish of its hero than by his moral victory and ultimate peace.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 181. Mr. 23, ’07. 860w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 210w. |
“He has exceeded his former work in human sympathy, quiet charm, and dramatic force. For freshness of sentiment and vividness of narrative it seems to us unexcelled by any recent romance.”
| + + | Outlook. 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 360w. |
“Mr. Oxenham’s vein of pathos is melodramatic—and therefore false.”