"The most delightful novel-heroine you've met in a long time. You like
it all, but you love Phyllis."--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._
"A true-blue, genuine American girl of the 20th century."--_Boston
Globe._
"Phyllis is a fine creature.... 'Otherwise Phyllis' is a 'comfortable,
folksy, neighborly tale' which is genuinely and unaffectedly American in
its atmosphere and point of view."--_Hamilton Wright Mabie, in the
Outlook._
"'Phil' Kirkwood--'Otherwise Phyllis'--is a creature to welcome to our
hearth, not to our shelf, for she does not belong among the things that
are doomed to become musty."--_Boston Herald._
"Phyllis is a healthy, hearty, vivacious young woman of prankish
disposition and inquiring mind.... About the best example between book
covers of the American girl whose general attitude toward mankind is one
of friendliness."--_Boston Advertiser._