“The style is epigrammatic without being laboured, the dramatic situations are handled with artistic restraint, and a vein of quiet humor runs all through the book.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 236. Ag. 19. 220w. |
“Written in an exasperating style. There is very little story about the book but instead a great deal of shrewd comment and incisive characterization.” Wm. M. Payne.
| — + | Dial. 39: 209. O. 1, ‘05. 400w. |
“An exceptionally bright and striking story. He has the art of telling a story, of putting each incident, rightly proportioned, in its proper place, of making his characters speak for themselves and justify their existence.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 452. Ag. 24, ‘05. 150w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 394. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
“It is not often that a lesson of serious import is conveyed in fiction with such delicacy of style, charm of humour, and literary effectiveness as here.”
| + + | Outlook. 80: 692. Jl. 15, ‘05. 140w. |
“Bricks of humor, satire, pathos, a couple of tragedy keystones, and all these joined with the mortar of realism into a magnificent edifice, built upon the rocks of cleverness.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 252. Ag. 19, ‘05. 140w. |