"Absorbing, written with sure power and a constant flow of humor…. Has the warm human glow of sympathy and understanding, and it is written with real mastery."—New York Times.

"A tale of absorbing interest from its start to the altogether unusual and dramatic climax with which it closes."—Philadelphia Public Ledger.

"Stands in the foremost rank of current fiction."—New York Tribune.

"His acute faculties of sympathetic observation, his felicitous skill in characterization, and his power to present the life of a community in all its multiple aspects are here combined in the most mature and absorbing novel of his entire career."—Philadelphia Press.