| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 394. Je. 15, ’07. 150w. |
“The faults of this unusual and interesting novel lie upon its surface. For the sake of Mr. Pendyce alone ‘The country house’ is well worth more than one reading.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 451. Jl. 20, ’07. 430w. |
“When his characters come to develop some consciousness, one of another, when they come to be more closely and significantly linked together, this brilliant portrayer of manners may easily come to produce something of permanent value.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| + | No. Am. 185: 777. Ag. 2, ’07. 1430w. |
“Clever beyond anything we have seen lately is this most artistic story. We could wish it were happier.”
| + + − | Outlook. 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 180w. |
“He is far from being detached and indifferent toward human nature in its finer manifestations, even if he does choose to make us feel its beauty chiefly by delineating the sordid, pathetic opposite.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
| + | Putnam’s. 2: 186. My. ’07. 110w. |
“Here is not a mere slice of life, a personal affair, a particular instance; it is a slice from a nation, a base of interests, an enduring condition. It is, of course, the central problem in a book of the kind to prevent undue domination either of the situation or of the story, and the author, conscious perhaps that in a previous work he permitted the situation to dictate terms to him, has in this been too much inclined to restrict its scope.”