— — +Bookm. 21: 612. Ag. ‘05. 1320w.

[*] “There is real promise in these half-dozen stories. Miss Cather has sincerity and no small degree of insight.”

+ +Critic. 47: 476. N. ‘05. 200w.

“Taken as a whole, the book indicates more than usual talent for close delineation.”

+Dial. 38: 394. Je. 1, ‘05. 140w.

“There is promise of something greater in them all.”

+ —Ind. 58: 1482. Je. 29, ‘05. 260w.

“In this collection of seven stories the author has shown a great deal of deep feeling and real ability, but many of the stories are too ambitious, and seem to be more the work of promise than of fulfillment.”

+ —N. Y. Times. 10: 303. My. 6, ‘05. 230w.

“They are singularly vivid, strong, true, original, and they have withal a richness of quality one might almost say of timbre, like a contralto voice.”