“The story is disconnected, and slow in movement, full of humor, and shows exquisite skill in characterization.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 177. O. ’07. ✠ |
“Before the two hundredth [page] is reached a falling off in the quality of the work must be noted, and a serious shrinkage in the warp and woof of the fabric. The author has been perhaps just a little too sure of his readers, just a little too palpably in love with his creatures.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 10. Jl. 6. 310w. |
“You have come in contact with a rarely engaging personality which, by some alchemy defying analysis, is capable of being seized and passed on through the medium of cold print.” Mary Moss.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 519. Jl. ’07. 1230w. |
“Only a crabbed partisan of the formal could place his hand upon his heart and sincerely aver that he would willingly spare any of these irrelevancies. They add salt and savour to a novel which even without them would be reckoned a remarkable example of the art of fiction at its noblest.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + − | Dial. 42: 375. Je. 16, ’07. 1000w. | |
| + + | Ind. 63: 397. Ag. 15, ’07. 890w. |
“Is disappointing after ‘Joseph Vance.’”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 30w. |