“Mrs. Doubleday occasionally ‘talks down’ to her readers in a way that a child who has got beyond the Mother Goose stage and is proud of it would be apt to resent.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 564. Mr. 7, ’07. 140w. |
“One of the most attractive bird-books that we have seen.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 547. Ap. 6, ’07. 180w. |
“The chief criticism is the number of these facts which is crowded into each short essay. Slips are few, and the book, as a whole, is well up to the standard set by the numerous pictures, which is very high.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 295. Mr. 28, ’07. 280w. |
“One feels that it would be fine to make the personal acquaintance of the author—and that is saying much. Here is an author who knows the calls of the woodland as a man might know his multiplication table.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 227. Ap. 6, ’07. 440w. |
“A pleasant, chatty little book.”
| + | Outlook. 86: 37. My. 4, ’07. 140w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 639. My. ’07. 70w. |