+ Nation 111:sup428 O 13 ’20 620w

“Miss Macaulay is so competent in reaching her aim that one is forced to wonder why she didn’t make her book a little smoother and more varied in style, and a little less awkward in form.” S. T.

+ − New Repub 24:280 N 10 ’20 460w

“The story is taken up at different stages by the principal figures, and Miss Macaulay shows real skill in her power of representing the facts as they appear to each, colored by the style and the preoccupations of the individual.” E. A. Boyd

+ N Y Evening Post p5 N 13 ’20 1050w

“Add to this penetrating observation and trenchancy of expression a finished style and good powers of characterization and it is not difficult to understand why Miss Macaulay’s fictional commentary on present day foibles was praisefully acclaimed in London, where it has already run into several editions.”

+ N Y Times p22 O 31 ’20 850w

Reviewed by Caroline Singer

+ Pub W 98:1887 D 18 ’20 340w

“What gives it distinction is the range and flexibility of its idea.” H. W. Boynton