"Mr. Hornblow has done his work with creditable aptitude. He is successful where success is most important—in keeping up the reader's suspense, in working effectively toward the climax. The book will interest those who have seen the play, and will doubtless send others to the theatre."
New York TIMES
"Mr. Hornblow has made his novelization of an enormously successful play in a workmanlike manner. The story, like the play, belongs to this very minute. It is full of a spirit and a feeling that are in the air. It deals with subjects which much iteration has strongly impressed on the people, and its point of view is the most obvious. The novel is likely to have an enormous sale."
New York AMERICAN
"Undoubtedly the book of the hour. Both the novel and the play appeal to the widest possible American public. The novelist gives more of the interesting story and has enhanced the virility and the element of suspense materially. The reader's interest will never lag a moment from cover to cover."
Cleveland NEWS
"'The Lion and the Mouse,' as a novel, more than maintains the reputation of its author as a clean-cut exposition of throbbing American life by a real novelist. Mr. Hornblow knows his subject and has succeeded in welding his own characteristic and illuminating expression to the idea of another man in such a manner that the novel must take its place beside the play as a welcome addition to American art."
Washington POST
"Will become the most talked-of book of the year.... As exciting and fascinating a narrative as has appeared in novel form in years."