The story is told with fireside friendliness.

The pale Lillian Gish surrounded by happy children gives us many a genre painting on the theme of domesticity.

It is a photographic rendering in many ways as fastidious as Tennyson's versification.

The scenes on the desert island are some of them commonplace.

The shipwreck and the like remind one of other photoplays, but the rest of the production has a mood of its own.