By
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell
“Circumstance” is a study of life in Philadelphia, rather curious as showing the exclusiveness of American Society. It is also a study of an adventuress. The point of the title lies in the varying resistance of character to external events, and the striking influence on inferior character of accidents, such as that which almost made Mrs. Hunter a murderess, or that which enabled her to attain her end without resorting to so disagreeable a step or sacrificing any of her complacency.
THE PILOT.—“Carried out with admirable effect.”
THE OUTLOOK.—“Contains an extremely able study of senile decay and one of the most sagacious portraits of a pretty coquette ... which we have ever seen.”
THE STANDARD.—“The book is very clever.”
ROSA N. CAREY
“Well conceived and well sustained.”
—The World.
“Highly interesting.”