Critic.—“A powerful story, unconventional as regards both subject and treatment. [Here the reviewer analyses the plot.] This situation is handled with extraordinary delicacy and skill, and the book is an admirable study of repressed emotions.”
Monitor.—“Miss Williams has here seized on an original concept, and given it fitting presentation. The ‘experiment’ is a novel one, and its working out is a deft piece of writing. The psychology of the work is faultless, and this study of a beautiful temperament, in a crude frame, has with it the verity of deep observation and acute insight. . . . We await with considerable confidence Miss Williams’ next venture.”
Sheffield Independent.—“The writer has treated a delicate and unusual situation with delicacy and originality. The heroine’s character is drawn with firmness and clearness, and the whole story is vivid and picturesque. . . . The history of the experiment is exceedingly well told. Keen insight into character, and cleverness in its delineation, as well as shrewd observation and intense sympathy, mark the writer’s work, while the style is terse and clear, and the management of trying scenes extremely good.”
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Aberdeen Free Press.—“Will be welcomed as something fresh in the world of fiction.”
St James’s Budget.—“A volume characteristic of the author’s splendid powers.”
M. A. P.—“Mr Kennedy writes powerfully, and can grip the reader’s imagination, or whirl it off into the strangest domains of glamour and romance at will. . . . There is a future for this clever young man from Tipperary. He will do great things.”
Outlook.—“Mr Bart Kennedy is a young writer of singular imaginative gifts, and a style as individual as Mr Kipling’s.”
Weekly Dispatch.—“The author has exceptional gifts, a strong and powerful individuality, a facile pen, rich imagination, and constructive ability of a high order. This volume ought to find a place on every library shelf.”
Critic.—“Of a highly imaginative order, and distinctly out of the ordinary run. . . . The author has a remarkable talent for imaginative and dramatic presentation. He sets before himself a higher standard of achievement than most young writers of fiction.”