“In its compact dramatic action, set forth in verse of a firm yet delicate beauty, it has the perennial significance that attaches to sincere and masterly workmanship.” Ferris Greenslet.
| + | Atlan. 96: 422. S. ‘05. 80w. |
“As a play, ‘Judith of Bethulia’ fails to hold the interest, and as a poem it fails to reach inspired heights. But it is well worth reading in a quiet hour, because of its simplicity, its chasteness and its serenity.” Clayton Hamilton.
| + | Bookm. 21: 101. Mr. ‘05. 520w. |
“A book that is dignified and impressive throughout, a book not unworthy of the trained artistic hand which brings it to us as a gift.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 48. Ja. 16, ‘05. 420w. |
“Mr. Aldrich’s mastery of poetic atmosphere is so easy, his metrical gift so constant, that he accomplishes a feat difficult for most writers of modern poetic drama, and weaves his melody and color around speeches of mere theatric necessity, and even around broken lines of swift dialogue.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 73. Ja. 26, ‘05. 520w. |
“We are the richer for a truly poetic drama, not quite so felicitous in imagery and expression as the earlier version and without the swift dramatic movement of inevitable events that marks the perfectly successful play upon the theatrical side, but dignified and imaginative and with the author’s unfailing insight into the passionate emotions of human nature.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 18. Ja. 14, ‘05. 400w. |