“It is a toy, very ingenious and puzzling, we must admit, but not a genuine specimen of literary handicraft.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 318. S. 2, ‘05. 340w. |
“Captain Tom’s description of his eccentric mates is occasionally exaggerated to the point of caricature, and his style is inconsistent, wavering between the style of the plain mariner and that of a clever, versatile, even brilliant writer.”
| + — | Nation. 80 :442. Je. 1, ‘05. 370w. |
“A certain knack of conversation and characterization, a certain largeness of view where the differing morals and madnesses of men are concerned, which gives them not only interest, but a sort of oneness.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 222. Ap. 8, ‘05. 450w. |
“Its humor is both spontaneous and demure, and its comedy pointed and subtle.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 150w. |
“This is of the grotesque, distorted type of humorous story. His observations on human nature are often shrewd and amusing.”
| + | Outlook. 79: 959. Ap. 15, ‘05. 110w. |