| − | Atlan. 100: 132. Jl. ’07. 280w. |
“In some years of novel-reading I cannot recall a more complete disappointment than this book has given me.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| − | Bookm. 25: 81. Mr. ’07. 1110w. | |
| Current Literature. 42: 460. Ap. ’07. 990w. |
“The story has no real ending. As to the people involved in this drama, it is plain that Mrs. Freeman herself has not reached a clear conception of either their personal appearance or their character. The representation of Maria’s character is of a piece with the other vaguenesses and self-contradictions.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| − + | Forum. 38: 538. Ap. ’07. 1410w. |
“The theme required a bigger philosophy of life than Mrs. Freeman could bring to bear upon the subject, and the end is lamentably unconvincing and unsatisfactory.”
| − + | Ind. 62: 443. F. 21, ’07. 260w. |
“She has perhaps sounded deeper levels of the human heart than hitherto.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 385. Mr. 9, ’07. 250w. |
“We recommend the novel very cordially as a piece of delicate and understanding work and also as an interesting story; but the reader must expect a monochrome and rather a hard one.”