SOURCE: "Through the Eyes of a Boy," in The Dial, Vol. 33, October 16, 1904, pp. 237-38.

In the following review, Shafer offers high praise for Farmington.

Since Mr. Howells's delightful idyll of boyhood, A Boy's Town, there has perhaps been no worthier companion volume than Mr. Darrow's Farmington. If one were born a boy, and has lived long enough to be able to look back and understand what it was to be young, and what his youth has meant to him ever since, he will find his real self again in these limpid pages. And if he be lucky enough to have begun life in the country, or in a village which was so small as to be almost the same thing, tucked in beside a millstream that divided two high hills, he will see with his waking eyes the places and the people that come to him in dreams...