“It is not very much of a story, but that doesn’t greatly matter, because it is Rose-Marie who really interests us all the while, and because her letters are the most delightful compound of bourgeois realism, sentimental fancy, and delicate humor.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 65. Ag. 1, ’07. 240w. |
“Fraulein Schmidt is a distinct acquisition.”
| + | Ind. 63: 220. Jl. 25, ’07. 330w. |
“It is written with the author’s usual charm.”
| + | Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 70w. |
“As a work of fiction, the book deserves particular notice for distinction of manner, acuteness of view, and, above all, for the refreshing spirit that animates each letter from the first to the last.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 417. S. 21, ’07. 530w. |
“Why should we read—with various degrees of pleasure it is true—a whole volume of her meditations which are without form, often shallow, sometimes slipshod, and never inspired? But she writes so freshly and sensibly and happily that to ask for a closer attention to these matters would be like asking a thrush, for example, to whistle a Bach fugue.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 750w. |