+ − Pub W 97:173 Ja 17 ’20 550w
“The writing is pleasant and workmanlike, and the way in which the elder woman of the story is led to reknit her broken romance is exceedingly well imagined.”
+ − Sat R 129:477 My 22 ’20 130w
“Mr Locke has given us an ingenious and amusing story, but gratitude for this gift cannot prevent even an indolent reviewer from protesting mildly against the strain he has imposed on our credulity.”
+ − Spec 124:462 Ap 3 ’20 550w
“Baltazar is very likeable in his forceful domineering strength, and Marcelle is a charming foil to his powerful personality. The lighter element is supplied by the Chinaman.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a F 22 ’20 650w
“Mr W. J. Locke goes on his way regardless of the limits between the probable and the improbable. John Baltazar stretches the credulity of the reader to the utmost from the moment that he enters on the scene.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p139 F 26 ’20 550w
LOCKEY, JOSEPH BYRNE. Pan-Americanism: its beginnings. *$5 Macmillan 327