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, the critic finds In Time of Peace unoriginal and didactic.

This last and posthumously published novel, by the author who scored so brilliant a success with Through the Wheat, charts a straight course through the post-war social history of the United States and elaborates a pattern that has been made thoroughly familiar to us by many novels and short stories, and by a great mass of factual reporting. During the past sixteen years we have heard much of the hero's return, of the difficulty of the soldier's readjustment to peace-time conditions. We have also read many tales of young married couples who were lifted up on the flood of Coolidge prosperity, cast down with paralyzing force by the 1929 collapse, and then swept along, battered and bewildered...