“His work has many qualities of greatness: but it is not yet great. A slight tendency to bitterness and to sentimentality is the one blemish in an extraordinarily well-written, well-observed piece of work.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 251. Mr. 9, ’07. 560w. |
“Occasionally, in an effort to extract the last drain of satire from a situation, Mr. Galsworthy is biting and mordant to an almost painful degree. His insight is keen, and he seems to enjoy the irony underlying the affairs of men.”
| + | Ath. 1907. 1: 348. Mr. 23. 340w. |
“It is a wonderful, vivid and detailed picture of stolid and complacent British conservatism, a consistent worship of the God of things as they are.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + | Bookm. 25: 497. Jl. ’07. 760w. |
“Mr. Galsworthy’s forte lies in depicting traditional prejudices, and the types which represent them, rather than in the creation of individual characters.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 680. Ag. ’07. 270w. |
“Few novelists are as successful as Mr. Galsworthy in adapting their means to their purposes, with the result, as in the present instance, of giving vivid reality to a group of commonplace people and of reproducing the very atmosphere of the scenes in which they move.” Wm. M. Payne.