SOURCE: "Stories with Mood and a Sense of Place," in Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books, March 18, 1962, p. 5.

In the following review of A Spirit Rises, Faverty appreciates Warner's ability to create an atmosphere in which the elements of her story seem believable.

In the title story of this collection [A Spirit Rises] a little girl is held enchanted as her father reads poetry to her on a rainy afternoon. Readers will be similarly held by some of these 14 stories, for Sylvia Warner is a practiced craftsman.

She is skilled first of all in evoking an atmosphere. The cadenced language of the title story fits the mood of reverie and nostalgia as an old lady is swept back into her childhood and feels herself secure again in her father's arms.

Along with mood goes a pronounced sense of place, so that some of the tales almost become local...