“Is not to be numbered among his strongest books. There is less spontaneity of character drawing; his men and his women lack the vital individuality of the earlier volumes; they suggest something stereotyped and worked over from earlier impressions. The central plot is not merely repellent, but difficult of acceptance.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| − | Bookm. 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 380w. |
“It is a story that more than ever makes us feel that Mr. Hardy has found a worthy successor.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 396. Je. 16, ’07. 300w. |
“Attempts to put a halo of self-sacrifice around a woman’s frailty, and the result is one of the most unconvincing stories he ever wrote.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| − | Forum. 39: 118. Jl. ’07. 370w. |
“Eden Phillpotts’s new novel is his masterpiece.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 1090. My. 9, ’07. 780w. |
“Eden Phillpotts’ last epic of the Dartmoor is beyond question the greatest of his angry masterpieces of that region.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 20w. |