“This is a simple, straightforward, and readable book.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 310w. |
“The hero and heroine behave themselves in the usual situations with about as much ease as an English peasant in his Sunday clothes. But this is insignificant beside the impression which he gives us of a vigorous young population striking out with arms and legs, careless as yet of the proprieties.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 301. O. 4, ’07. 520w. |
“A modern story of the south with a pretty love story and a plot involving a significant new attitude on the negro question.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“Mr. Harben, who may have sketched a Georgia cracker or two with some faithfulness, is not on that account a novelist.”
| − | N. Y. Times. 12: 764. N. 30, ’07. 230w. |
“The romance inevitable in Southern novels is as wholesome and sweet as possible.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 100w. |