SOURCE: "Saratoga and New Orleans—and Edna Ferber," in New York Herald Tribune Books, November 2, 1941, p. 5.

Feld was a Rumanian-born American critic and journalist. In the following favorable review, she praises the characterizations and plotline of Saratoga Trunk.

Again Edna Ferber has taken a slice out of America's past and made it come alive. In Saratoga Trunk, her new novel, she has gone back to the '80's of New Orleans and Saratoga, two cities which at different poles represented the lustiness, the vitality and the romance of the period. Both scenes are admirably suited to her abilities. She has a feeling for the color and the sparkle of the robust, a relish for honesty of emotions and actions, however rooted in dishonesty; a kinship with a generation which had a deep respect for good food. Saratoga Trunk is certain to take its place beside her Show Boat...