SOURCE: “Blood of the Pioneers,” in The New Republic, Vol. 82, No. 1062, April 10, 1935, p. 252.

In the following review, Guthrie admires the documentary nature of both In Time of Peace and Through the Wheat.

In Time of Peace is a posthumous novel. Thomas Boyd died suddenly a few days before its publication. He was thirty-six years old. His literary output consisted of a dozen books about evenly divided between novels and biographies. His first book and the one for which he is best known is Through the Wheat, a novel which, a dozen years after it appeared, still deserves to be rated as the most authentic picture of the World War as the average American soldier saw and felt it. If he had written no other book than this, Boyd could still claim the honor of being the only American writer to show the War as it was, without retouched...