The New York Herald

The New York Globe “The story reveals Mr. Thurston’s fine and varied literary talent.”

The New York Globe

The Boston Herald “The enchantment of the story survives its telling.”

The Boston Herald

The New York World “A strange story with something of poetry in it, with much mysticism and such color as comes out of the gray mountain mist.”

The New York World

The Brooklyn Eagle “Readers who like romance when it is really well done should not miss Mr. Thurston’s story.”

The Brooklyn Eagle

The Hartford Courant “It is beautifully worded and so full of the charm of that country that it might be called blank verse, rather than a novel in prose.”