“It is with exemplary and judicial dispassionateness that Mr. Hutchinson analyzes and depicts his man with two moods. But apart from this non-committal tone of the narrative, the novel deserves nothing but praise.”
| + + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 73. Jl. 15, 330w. |
[*] “The book is written with a simple distinction, and is filled with suggestive and quotable passages. An unusual character study.”
| + | Critic. 47: 477. N. ‘05. 80w. |
“A book of almost startling originality and of very unusual interest.”
| + + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 463. Jl. 15, ‘05. 790w. |
[*] “Is hardly a successful novel, though it has merit as a succession of scenes.”
| + — | Sat. R. 100: 282. Ag. 26, ‘05. 320w. |
“The beginning of the book, with the pictures of life in the gipsy van, though not worked out in detail, furnishes pleasant reading; but Hood’s philosophic utterances are not impressive.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 293. Ag. 26, ‘05. 150w. |