" I wanted to like this book. I wanted to find it delightfully old-fashioned and charming. But really I found it pretty smarmy and dull, with racist (anti-Irish) interludes. It's certainly not a tale I would read to children (too many big words and obscure references, and too much moralizing), and neither is it one to entertain adults. Which leaves it somewhere in the useless category, I guess. "
— Hashi, 1/11/2014