The purpose and feeling of this novel are intense, yet it is all
mellowed by humor, and it contains perhaps the author's freshest and
most sympathetic story of young love. Throughout its pages the "God be
praised evil has turned to good" of the old Major rings like a trumpet
call of hope. This story of to-day tells of a triumph of courage and
devotion.
"A book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any in the
range of fiction."--_The Nation._
"Our older novelists (Dickens and Thackeray) will have to look to
their laurels, for the new one is fast proving himself their equal.
A higher quality of enjoyment than is derivable from the work of
any other novelist now living and active in either England or
America."--_The Dial._