| + — | Arena. 34: 445. O. ‘05. 800w. |
“While the story is not lacking in strength, nor in that finer character-drawing that the writer’s previous work has associated with her name, one feels more than once that the plot has been moulded to fit a preconceived thesis.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 22: 133. O. ‘05. 390w. |
[*] “Miss French has given us a book of very genial and human sort, and brought to it a gift of shrewd and sometimes humorous observation, such as comes only after long practice in the art of fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 39: 307. N. 16, ‘05. 660w. |
“The latter half of the book is stuffed with not very enlightening discussions of labor problems, and it ends in an absurdly conventional way.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 581. S. 7, ‘05. 140w. |
[*] “Octave Thanet is at her best in depicting children. She loves them in any rank of life, and gets them on paper in all their whimsicality, their straight-to-the-mark directness, their consistent inconsistency.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 837. D. 2, ‘05. 450w. |
“It is interesting and well developed. Its pages are full of evidences of the author’s keen and kindly study of men and things and of her aptitude for the lively narration of the results of her observations.”