"The art of writing adequately and acceptably about children is among
the rarest and most precious of arts.... 'The Golden Age' is one of the
few books which are well-nigh too praiseworthy for praise.... The fit
reader--and the 'fit' readers should be far from 'few'--finds himself a
child again while reading it. Immortality should be the reward....
Praise would be as superfluous as analysis would be impertinent."