“These letters while slight, make a thoroughly acceptable bit of summer diversion.”

+Nation. 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 400w.
+N. Y. Times. 12: 378. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

“There are many exquisite passages and there is never anything that is commonplace, never a platitude.”

+ +N. Y. Times. 12: 419. Je. 29, ’07. 360w.

“Apart from the fun of the book, which may seem somewhat less than usual in the work of this writer, there is really a heart story dealt with in an unusual and unexpected way, while the comments of the quiet but proud Anglo-German Rose-Marie on literature and life are in themselves pungent and discerning.”

+Outlook. 86: 609. Jl. 20, ’07. 200w.

“Rose-Marie is the only correspondent worth mentioning who has appeared in fiction since [Glory Quayle], and she is of much finer spiritual fibre, of as much charm and of a better brain-capacity.”

+ +Putnam’s. 2: 746. S. ’07. 520w.

“The dénoûment will not conciliate sentimentalists, and we are by no means sure that it is in strict accordance with experience, but it has both logic and justice to commend it.”

+Spec. 98: 703. My. 11, ’07. 1430w.