"Mr. Hornblow's book is written in distinguished English; its chapters are chiselled to exact proportions; its story is clear and limpid; particularly are its characters cleverly vivid, and with few exceptions tell themselves in the dialogue more plainly than they could with ever so much extrinsic aid of psychic and physical description. The American nation is indebted to him. He has clothed with the vibrant palpitating flesh of life-interest the greatest economic problem and evil of the day. It is a book to make the multitude think."