“The author has certainly produced a notable as well as a good story. It seems to us somewhat clogged by over elaboration of style and metaphor.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 659. Je. 1. 250w. |
“The book is the work of one who has thought much. Scattered through it are gnomic sayings that stick in the memory. These and an intimate sense of natural forces, are perhaps the striking external features of the book.” Ward Clark.
| + | Bookm. 25: 523. Jl. ’07. 450w. |
“The book has strength ... although not in this plot with its dubious ethical implications. It is the strength of keen analysis, vivid descriptive power, and a characterization of the rustic population of Devon and Dartmoor fairly comparable with the work of Mr. Phillpotts and other disciples of the school of Thomas Hardy.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + − | Dial. 43: 62. Ag. 1, ’07. 340w. |
“An Ibsen plot set in a Thomas Hardy environment. The combination is, on the whole, an effective one, for the author has undoubted talent.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1312. N. 28, ’07. 400w. |
“In the case of Miss Willcock’s book ... we have need of some emphatic word that shall signify a book that is not a season’s masterpiece or a giant among pigmies, but, as we conceive, one that takes its place, if not among the highest, still among books where rules of measurement seem a little out of place.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 110. Ap. 5, ’07. 540w. |