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"Alice is a sharp witted, sensible child of the London streets. ... She
looks after a family that has lost its director, the mother, while the
father has been thrown out of the work he knows by an accident.... It is
a lower level of life than Dickens explored, that of the London laboring
man; it is handled as sympathetically and as vividly as Dickens might
have and with no trace of the false sentimentality that afflicted him at
times.... Alice is a child to be loved and admired and not to be
forgotten soon. It is a capital story and a fine piece of work ... as
enjoyable a blend of fun and hard sense as we have met in a long
while."--_New York Sun._
"Just wholesome human nature working in one of the short and simple
annals of the poor. The best of Dickens without his too profuse
pathos."--_Reedy's Mirror._
"A juvenile Mrs. Wiggs, not of the cabbage patch, but of the London
pavements ... a wholesome bit of lite illumined with an optimism that
even poverty cannot dim."--_Duluth News-Tribune._
"St John G. Ervine has firmly established his claim to a place in the
ranks of those younger writers to whom we look for the worth-while
novels of the future."--_New York Times._
"A delightfully entertaining story, full of humor and common sense
philosophy.... St John G. Ervine has already won a place as one of the
foremost of the present day novelists."--_Independent._
"One of the most brilliant novels I have read in recent
years."--_William Lyon Phelps._