The 1925 edition of "In Our Time" is considered one of Hemingway's masterpieces. Reviewers and critics noticed, and the collection received positive reviews on its publication. "The New York Times" described the language as "fibrous and athletic, colloquial and fresh, hard and clean, his very prose seems to have an organic being of its own". A reviewer for "Time" wrote, "Ernest Hemingway is somebody; a new honest un-'literary' transcriber of life – a Writer." Reviewing if for "The Bookman", F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote Hemingway was an "augury" of the age and that the Nick Adams stories were "temperamentally new" in American fiction.