"No one can begin this story without reading it to the end, for there is not a page at which the interest flags, and it is almost impossible not to feel that 'Barberine' was a woman of history, and not of fiction."—N. Y. Herald.
"The plot has to do with a Russian Nihilist conspiracy, and there is enough love, murder and politics to furnish material for half a dozen novels."—Boston Evening Transcript.
"Chicago publishing houses are fast coming to the front with good books, well made, and sold at popular prices. This is one of them, a volume which we judge from a cursory glance, will find many readers during the midsummer weather. It is not a philosophical treatise, disguised as a novel by a bright, well-written story. The plot is well laid, and the language in good taste."—Albany Sunday Press.
"Few novels issued during the last half year are of more absorbing interest. It is a story of a life of self-sacrifice.... There are some fine dramatic effects produced by weaving into the romance an insurrection in Poland, life in St. Petersburg, a journey to New York, and thence to San Francisco before the days of the railroad."—N. Y. Evening Mail.
"It is told with great power, and in a strikingly realistic manner."—Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston.
"The plot is intricate and exciting, and incidents thickly crowded and natural."—St. Paul Pioneer Press.
"It is absorbingly interesting."—American Bookseller, N. Y.
"There is nothing prosy about it in the least, but overflows with a brilliancy that will cause it to be read by thousands."—Commercial Advertiser, Detroit.
"This is a charming novel."—Daily Evening Post, San Francisco.
1 vol., 12mo, 365 pages, Cloth, Red and Gold Stamp.
Price, $1.00.