| + — | Critic. 47: 579. D. ‘05. 70w. |
“A pretty story, pleasantly told by Mrs. Wiggin in her usual limpid style.”
| + | Ind. 59: 989. O. 26, ‘05. 130w. |
[*] “It is ‘manufactured’ from the start, and the attempt to bestow ‘color’ and stir emotion are cruelly patent, tho perfectly null.”
| — | Lit. D. 31: 797. N. 25, ‘05. 360w. |
“Rose is a pretty girl, and her story is a pretty story with a pretty moral.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 305. S. 22, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “‘Rose o’ the river’ is as slender a tale as ever walked into print on the merits of an author’s name.”
| — | Nation. 81: 488. D. 14, ‘05. 120w. |
“The story is written with a graceful sprightliness which is always part of Mrs. Wiggin’s stories, but beside those other two [Rebecca and Penelope] Rose simply cannot live.”