In a 1900 Courier article Cather writes: "If you want to read a story that is all wheat and no chaff, read Blix ... there is not a shadow of pedantry or pride of craft in it from cover to cover. Blix herself is the method, the motive and the aim of this book."
In an April 1900 Courier article Cather says that it's "as poetic and graceful as McTeague was somber and charmless."