The Flower Beneath the Foot / Being a record of the early life of St. Laura de Nazianzi and the times in which she lived

by Ronald Firbank

LIVERPOOL POST AND MERCURY:

“In taking to play-writing he has obviously done the right thing. The Princess Zoubaroff is artificial comedy of the uncommonly successful sort.... The brilliancy, suavity and vim of the dialogue.... No present-day social-satirist has parodied more cruelly the elegant verbal affectations, the malicious chatter and fashionable slang that passes for wit and wisdom in Mayfair.”