| — — | Outlook. 79: 605. Mr. 4, ‘05. 40w. |
“The book is carefully and easily written.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 38: 215. F. 11, ‘05. 290w. |
“The discovery of relationships, the linking together of scattered and seemingly unrelated facts, the many ramifications, show constructive skill of a high order. As a study—thorough, logical and strong—of some complex, sophisticated aspects of New York life the book will rank high.”
| + + | Reader. 5: 620. Ap. ‘05. 520w. |
Gardiner, Ruth Kimball. Heart of a girl. [†]$1.50. Barnes.
A book about a child, but one whose contemplative phase belongs to grown-ups. The story traces the workings of a silent, lonely, albeit resourceful girl’s heart from childhood thru her High School days. “We follow Margery to Margaret, and know we are always with a real girl, independent, faulty, sensitive, and generous, imperious among her fellows, yet a favorite and a born leader.” (Outlook.)
“Mrs. Gardiner’s story represents a phase in the psychology of childhood to the study of which such writers as Kenneth Grahame, George Madden Martin, and Marion Hill have contributed.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 492. Jl. 22, ‘05. 270w. |
“The book is well written, with much sympathy for the little joys and sorrows that loom so large in childhood, and for the intense loves, ambitions, disappointments, triumphs of the older schoolgirl.”