| | + + | Bookm. 21: 543. Jl. ‘05. 500w. |
“With his keen faculty for seizing the essentials and dismissing the superfluous, Mr. Duncan has brought us face to face not only with the rigors and romance of life on the Labrador coast, but with its humor as well—and a varying humor it is, now droll and again grim, but always an accurate depiction. A romance full of interest and charm.”
| | + + + | Ind. 58: 210. Ja. 26, ‘05. 280w. |
“There is a group of figures of excellent variety and of the best sort of originality, self-stamped as made up of discovery and sympathetic interpretation. The story is perfectly fitted into the strange, wild surroundings.”
| | + + | Nation. 80: 97. F. 2, ‘05. 540w. |
“As an organic, thoroughly-developed novel, it is a failure.”
| | + — | Reader. 5: 789. My. ‘05. 210w. |
“A novel of unusually high merit. But Mr. Duncan has not only a new field to exploit, he has style. The swift yet long and undulating sentences move with a distinctive rhythm that is as fresh as it is new. They tell a strong, beautiful love story. Altogether, ‘Dr. Luke of the Labrador’ is one of the season’s two or three best books.”
| | + + + | R. of Rs. 31: 118. Ja. ‘05. 170w. |
Duncan, Norman. [Mother.] [†]$1.25. Revell.