"There is, of course, a certain tragic air in the run of them, but no
real gloominess ... the optimism and natural good humor of the ingenious
and versatile author shining in the saddest and most sentimental pages
of the book."--New York _Evening Sun_.
"Mr. Hopkinson Smith's genius for sympathy finds full expression in his
stories of human under dogs of one sort and another ... each serves as a
centre for an episode, rapid, vivid, story-telling."--_The Nation_.
"Mr. Smith shows in the management of the short story, as he has shown
so often before, the same command over his material and his instruments
which he has shown in his novels."--New York _Tribune_.
"The touch is always light and delicate but sure, and the pictures
presented seem very real."--Philadelphia _Public Ledger_.