“The author’s ideas are evaporated into Henry James subtleties, and so it is merely a little pamphlet of elegant discriminations.”
| − | Ind. 62: 1528. Je. 27, ’07. 220w. |
“Mrs. Wharton’s little story is as thin as her astral shape and should not be mentioned except to call attention to the fact that she has learned to begin where Henry James leaves off.”
| − | Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 30w. |
“Her pages exhale the undefinable atmosphere and aroma of aristocratic French life of the present day—a phase of life almost incomprehensible to the foreigner. The author’s style is full of distinction and is marked by those exquisite reserves that characterize the born artist. Slight as the volume is, it reveals artistic possibilities hitherto undiscerned.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 350w. | |
| + | Nation. 84: 313. Ap. 4, ’07. 710w. |
“She succeeds in painting her gray picture not so subtly that we forget her art, but exquisitely enough for us to recognize how fine that art is.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 137. Mr. 9, ’07. 1400w. |
“The precision of her technique ... the sensitiveness and significance of her observation, her feeling for the harmonious sentence and the suggestive phrase ... must always stamp her work as superior to that of many writers of wider sympathy and more spontaneous talent.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + + | No. Am. 185: 218. My. 17, ’07. 1200w. |