"There are many bits of excellent description in the course of the
story, and an atmosphere as fresh and sweet and free from modern grime
as one would breathe on the Ozark trails themselves."--_New York Times._
"Amidst all the ordinary literature of the day, it is as a pure, white
stone set up along a dreary road of unending monotony."--_Buffalo
Courier_.
"It is filled with laughs and tears, this beautiful story, and no one
can help laughing or crying in turn, if his heart is right."--_Pueblo
Chieftain_.
"It is a heart-stirring story. A tale to bring laughter and tears; a
story to be read and read again."--_Grand Rapids Herald_.
"The people who move within it are so human that the reader of their
story will pick them out for like and dislike, as if he had really known
them in the flesh, rather than in the pages of a book."--_Chicago
Journal_.
"One of the best novels written in the English language for over a
decade. * * * Good luck to the man who can put upon paper so fine a
novel of American life."--_Pittsburg Press_.
"One of the really good books of the year. * * * A powerful and
analytical study of character."--_Cleveland Plain Dealer_.
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