Commercial Advertiser:
"Once more Mrs. Earle has drawn on her apparently inexhaustible store
of colonial lore, and has produced another interesting book of the
olden days.... Mrs. Earle's interesting style, the accuracy of her
statements, and the attractive illustrations she always supplies for
her books make the volume one to be highly prized."
Buffalo Express:
"Mrs. Alice Morse Earle performs a real historical service, and writes
an interesting book. It is not a compilation from, or condensation of,
previous books, but the fruit of personal and original investigation
into the conditions of life in the American colonies."