Scotsman.—“You don’t get far into this novel—about a couple of pages—before the epigrams begin exploding and the repartee detonating, and the subtle terse and quart of wit with wit fuffuffing, like so many squibs and crackers on the Queen’s Birthday; and this coruscation is kept up in a way to make your hair curl until the end of the story.… The author has abundant literary aptitudes, exemplified over and over again by the pages of this clever book.”
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Daily Telegraph.—“A book by an anonymous author always arouses a certain inquiry, and when the book is clever and original the interest becomes keen, and conjecture is rife, endowing the most unlikely people with authorship.… It is very brilliant, very forcible, very sad.… It is perfect in its way, in style clear, sharp and forcible, the dialogue epigrammatic and sparkling.… Enough has been said to show that ‘The Hypocrite’ is a striking and powerful piece of work, and that its author has established his claim to be considered a writer of originality and brilliance.”
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Literature.—“The story strikes the fresh note of having been lived, experienced, and does not come to one as a stale invention. There is human nature in it, and passion, of a kind: tragedy too.… We should say, ‘Read the book by all means.’”
Echo.—“Its general air of out-Bourget-ing Bourget. You will ‘see life’ in its story, no doubt, for it has a measure of pathos, insight and power, but most certainly you will not see life steadily.”
Morning Leader.—“Vivid with the strange lusts and cruel desires of an imagination enslaved to the body … powerful enough in the imaginative treatment of the characters.… The luridness is simply Titanic.”