Old-Fashioned Girl

"The author of "Little Women" seeks, and not without success, to draw from her "Old-Fashioned Girl" a contrast and a moral. She presents to our view two young ladies of opposite "styles." One is fresh and rural: the other isn''t. The difference is about as great as that between the warbling of woodside birds and the jingle of one of Offenbach''s tunes on a corner barrel-organ."—Book Notice from Punchinello, April 30,1870.