It was first published in hardcover by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1895 and was reprinted by Fleabonnet Press, in November 2008.

According to its review in The Bookman, "To call this volume a collection of dramatic fragments or episodes would be nearer the truth than to style these vistas of life, stories.

There is a blending of realism and romance, of comedy and tragedy, of smiles and tears which makes havoc with the reader's emotions.

It is especially in her power to discern the tragedy of the commonplace, and the pleasure she takes in reducing us to a strange despair at the sorry spectacle of a relentless, ironic nemesis playing fast and loose about us, that she fascinates and holds our interest whether we will or no.

We discern in her the severity and tragic fire of the Greek spirit refined and softened as it mingles with the gentleness of the woman."