SOURCE: A review of In Time of Peace, in The Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. 11, No. 33, March 2, 1935, p. 517.

In the following review, Boynton admires Boyd's storytelling in In Time of Peace despite sections of moralizing.

The success of Through the Wheat (was it really a dozen years ago?) did not tempt the late Thomas Boyd to repeat himself. So far as the form of the novel was concerned, he had said his say about the world in wartime. The book established him as a writing man, and he continued to write. But his later novels dealt with a safer and remoter past, to be recalled, if with qualified approval, at least without anguish. In biography too he found the ease and release of contact with men and issues too far off, too thoroughly done for, to call for indignation or resentment. Meanwhile the person behind the author was...