OUTLOOK.—“Good work in which the influence of Mr. Saltus is perceptible. There are whole pages of admirable rhetoric. The story illustrates the enormous power of woman to excite and obsess man—an old theme, but an inexhaustible one.”
SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH.—“A good half-crown’s worth of smart clever writing. Both stories are quite off the conventional line.”
ST. PAUL’S.—“The dialogue in ‘My Lady Ruby’ is crisp and distinctly good. The second story, ‘John Basileon,’ is very striking.”
ST. JAMES’ BUDGET.—“ ‘My Lady Ruby’ is a dainty trifle, of the genre made familiar by Anthony Hope, wittily and gracefully told. . . . ‘John Basileon’ is a lurid story in which the senses run riot, and in one of the chapters, ‘The Glory of the God of Sex,’ we have a phrase suggestive of the outlook on life of practically all the characters engaged.”
WOMAN’S WEEKLY.—“ ‘My Lady Ruby,’ by Mr. G. F. Monkshood, whose work on Rudyard Kipling was so much appreciated, is a dainty little study of a pair of lovers; the other story, ‘John Basileon,’ shows the author has several styles, and while a less pleasant theme has a strength that one cannot but admire.”
LIVERPOOL REVIEW.—“ ‘My Lady Ruby’ is a little love story told in an extremely unconventional fashion. Between the same covers is a short lurid story of passion called ‘John Basileon,’ in which the moralities are discussed in a very free and easy, and not altogether commendable, style. Still Mr. Monkshood can write.”
MONITOR.—“ ‘My Lady Ruby’ is charming, and as witty as she is charming. . . . ‘John Basileon’ evinces imagination and subtlety of a highly vivid and intense quality. The note of the book is modern, but of a modernity far removed from that of the term understood by the French Symbolists and the English Degenerates. Messrs. Greening & Co. are to be congratulated on a publication which is likely to arouse considerable attention in those literary circles from which approbation is praise indeed.”
NORTH BRITISH DAILY MAIL.—“The titular story—one of two—displays a lightness of touch and a deftness of construction that make its perusal a source of keen mental stimulation, while the wit of its dialogue and the gentle and kindly humour that permeates the whole of it serve to increase and intensify the intellectual exhilaration, which every cultured man who reads it, must feel. . . . The second tale, ‘John Basileon,’ is of a different stamp. The language is strong, and its suggestion ever stronger, and it displays a real power over the emotional states, and an insight into the psychology of a man’s love, seldom arrived at by writers of Fiction.”
AT ALL BOOKSELLERS AND LIBRARIES.