SOURCE: "Edna Ferber's Come and Get It," in The New York Times Book Review, February 24, 1935, p. 6.

In the following mixed review of Come and Get It, Marsh applauds Ferber's eye for evocative detail, but contends that the novel loses its appeal and effectiveness in the closing chapters.

To that great army of the American fiction-reading public who liked The Girls (1921), So Big (1924), Show Boat (1926), Cimarron (1930), American Beauty (1931), the short stories and the plays (with George S. Kaufman) of Edna Ferber, her new novel, Come and Get It, is recommended. It is of a piece with the rest.

Her publishers say of Edna Ferber that she is boxing the compass for America. She has written of New England, the old South, the Middle West and the Southwest, the cities and the farms, the past and the present in American life with equal virtuosity. Now she trains her sharp eyes...