SOURCE: A review of In Time of Peace, Vol. 140, No. 36, May 22, 1935, p. 609.

In the following review, the critic dismisses In Time of Peace as “plodding” and forgettable.

It is unusual to find a proletarian novel which is not violent enough for the most sensational taste. Yet it must be confessed that In Time of Peace, Thomas Boyd's last work, is too placid to realize the revolutionary intent. It continues the story of Hicks, the protagonist of the war novel Through the Wheat, carrying him through boom times, through marriage and a successful, moneyed career as a newspaperman, down to the crisis, the depression, and ultimate personal failure. It is the tale of a man's brief apostasy to the working class, his surrender to capitalist interests, and their inevitable betrayal of him. To the execution of this theme Thomas Boyd brought honesty and care and fidelity of observation, but...