“‘The helpmate’ stands or falls by its fidelity to the fact. In spite of certain defects, we think it stands; and stands not only as a document but as an emotional story. We admire the book immensely; we admire its skill, its outspokenness, its reticence. Perhaps, most of all, we admire Miss Sinclair’s sympathetic understanding and tolerance, beyond that of most married novelists.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 269. S. 6, ’07. 670w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 259. S. 19, ’07. 640w. |
“The book contains unforgettable scenes, persons, phrases, and such a picture of the hardness of a good woman as exists nowhere else in our literature. If there are minor errors of judgment and lapses of kindliness, there is nevertheless and always that large charity which is the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual thing which is Miss Sinclair’s most wonderful gift—the gift of understanding.” H. I. Brock.
| + + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 510. Ag. 24, ’07. 1490w. |
“It is a good book for some women to read and a dangerous book for some men. A wider knowledge of life would have made ‘The helpmate’ a great story.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 621. N. 23, ’07. 270w. |
“We flatly refuse to believe in the final development of Anne into a perfectly rational human being, but we strongly commend the novel as a powerful study of temperament.”
| + + − | Sat. R. 104: 370. S. 21, ’07. 310w. |
Sinclair, May. [Tysons.] $1.50. Holt.
A new edition of Miss Sinclair’s analytically keen inquiry into the relations of an ill-assorted pair.