BOOKMAN.—"The main interest is not the revival of old times, but a love-story which might be of today, or any day, a story which reminds one very pleasantly of Harry Esmond and Lady Castlewood."
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.—"We think he will be a novelist, perhaps even a great novelist—one of the few who hold large powers of divers sort in solution to be precipitated in some new unexpected form."
GUARDIAN.—"One of those rare books that will bear reading many times."
DAILY NEWS.—"Mr. J. L. Allen shows himself a delicate observer, and a fine literary artist in The Choir Invisible."
ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE.—"A book that should be read by all those who ask for something besides sensationalism in their fiction."
SPECTATOR.—"Marked by beauty of conception, reticence of treatment, and it has an atmosphere all its own."
DAILY CHRONICLE.—"It is written with singular delicacy and has an old-world fragrance which seems to come from the classics we keep in lavender.... There are few who can approach his delicate execution in the painting of ideal tenderness and fleeting moods."
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