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The Outlook.—'We have here a book packed with thought, suggestive, sincere. The story is told supremely well. It has construction, it has atmosphere. The characters live, breathe, love, suffer. Everything is on the high plane of literature. It is a book of absorbing interest.'

The Daily Telegraph.—'Packed full of cleverness: the minor personages are instinct with comedy.'

The Daily Chronicle.—'The book is well written, the characters keenly observed, the incidents neatly presented.'

The Queen.—'A book to linger over and enjoy.'

The Standard.—'A worthy successor to Joanna Traill, Spinster. It is quite as powerful. It has insight and sympathy and pathos, humour, and some shrewd understanding of human nature scattered up and down its pages. Moreover, there is beauty in the story and idealism Told with a humour, a grace, a simplicity, that ought to give the story a long reign The charm of the book is undeniable; it is one that only a clever woman, full of the best instincts of her sex, could have written.'

The World.—'The story, in which there are many beautiful descriptive passages, is so human and sympathetic, so full of the comprehension and love of nature, and shows such real humour too, that it cannot fail to arouse and maintain interest.'