This love story of Texas, which pictures the rough but romantic life on the plains, is the story of a young New Yorker who falls in love with a girl who is the last of an old Mexican family whose estates have gradually been taken from them by the Americans.

“Miss Driscoll can tell a tale with freshness and an engaging individuality. She has not quite got the knack either of omitting unessential details, or of saving essential ones from being a trifle tedious.”

+ —Acad. 68: 495. My. 6. ‘05. 310w.

“The author’s diction is commonplace, and her grammar none too sound.”

— —Ath. 1905, 1: 556. My. 6. 120w.

“The story is really too good, as stories go, to be treated altogether flippantly.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ —Bookm. 21: 601. Ag. ‘05. 170w.

“It is a very little story and very simple.”

+ —N. Y. Times. 10: 160. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w.

“And nothing in particular to recommend or condemn it.”