“Unfortunately for her book making, she has studied Richard Jefferies too much. We are grateful to her and to Messrs. Dent for providing us with another pretty gift book for our gentle, less critical friends.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 506. My. 25, ’07. 1350w. |
“Intelligence and thought and knowledge have worked hand in hand; and we appreciate these so much that we lament the more the lack of restraint with which the book is written.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 18. Jl. 6. 390w. |
“Eyes hungering for beauty are again, as in Jefferies’s enchanting pages, persuaded to look at things that are near and common, and to find it there; and herein lies the value of this book.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
| + | Dial. 42: 1364. Je. 16, ’07. 1900w. |
“It is interesting to a lover of American flowers to see how English flowers look, for there are very few of the flowers here figured which grow here, altho many of them are familiar enough in literature.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 180w. |
“The manner of the book is personal in tone, colloquial, not always quite exact in the use of language, but fairly entertaining in the mass.”