“The score of characters who move through Mrs. Banks’s pages are quaint, charming, whimsical, by turns, but never exaggerated or burlesqued. The central thread of the story, which binds the whole together with a strength surprising in a plot of such fragile delicacy, is imbued with a simple pathos that at times evokes an almost painful sympathy.” F. T. Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 21: 599. Ag. ‘05. 510w. |
“The author has a riotous sentimentality, no sense of humor, and an over-worked knack of detaching scenic bric-a-brac from the landscape.”
| + — | Critic. 47: 284. S. ‘05. 90w. | |
| + | Ind. 59: 209. Jl. 27, ‘05. 150w. |
“The book is somewhat cumbered with description, and several of its characters have toppled over into caricatures, but it will be read with interest both because of a plot out of the ordinary and of the freshness and spontaneity of its treatment.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 479. Jl. 22, ‘05. 230w. |
“There are bits here which are gently provocative of a smile, and always the sentiment is sweet and gracious, but the total effect is rather faint.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 693. Jl. 15, ‘05. 50w. | |
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 504. O. 14, ‘05. 160w. |
“Appears as a frank imitator of Miss Mary Wilkins, and the imitation is not very successful.”
| — | Sat. R. 100: 283. Ag. 26, ‘05. 170w. |