"These bits of fiction (there are seventeen of them in a book which runs to only 150 pages) are often of symbolic significance. Some of them are dreams, while others are fine bits of portraiture. All of them exhibit a tendency on the part of the author to approach his subjects in a psychological manner." -N Y Times"Beresford is an incorrigible experimenter. All of these stories show his capacity for wonder, his habit of speculation, his inveterate striving to drag a new idea out of the formless void and to crystallize it in words. In all of them, the artist is subsidiary to the man playing with his ideas. They are not emotionally fused." -Dial"The method of narration is often distinguished. Mr. Beresford, in these bits, shows himself a better artist than he has appeared in recent novels of which he has been guilty."-N Y Times