“A novel with a ‘poor white trash’ mill-girl heroine, and a dissipated labor agitator for hero, does not sound promising.” (Outlook.) It “is clearly meant as a tract on industrial conditions in the new South.... [It] pictures the life of the factory hands in the cotton mills—a life ... which is mainly sickness, suffering and death. There is much in the book to arouse sober thought, and certain passages are rich in description and characterization.” (Pub. Opin.)
“Apart from errors in style, and, here and there, in feeling, there is a capacity to portray life which shows real power.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 240. Mr. 11, ‘05. 230w. |
“Is not a strong story, though it shows in places, the wish, if not the power, to say something vital about love and life and death.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 1: 395. Ap. 1. 420w. |
Reviewed by Herbert W. Horwill.
| + — | Forum. 37: 113. Jl. ‘05. 220w. |
“Mrs. Van Vorst paints with a strong hand the terrible life in the mills.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 260. Ap. 22, ‘05. 610w. |
“Interesting and good work, although its story is improbable and over weighted with propagandist theories and statistics.”