SOURCE: A review of In Time of Peace, in Forum and Century, Vol. 93, No. 4, April, 1935, p. iv.

In the following review, Walton finds In Time of Peace an unsatisfactory sequel to Boyd's Through the Wheat.

Written just before his recent death, the title of Mr. Boyd's novel is astringently ironical. Hicks, the hero of that excellent war book, Through the Wheat, finds, after passing through a typical experience of the 'twenties, that peace can be as cruel and murderous as ever the war was and that for the underdog everywhere the fight is not over. A stubborn, honest-minded, rather inarticulate man, Hicks marries during the early postwar depression days, finds an ill-paying newspaper job, and has a desperate struggle to stretch out his meager budget. With the boom, however, he and Patsy strike solid ground, and, though Hicks remains a little skeptical of their comparative affluence, he is...