“A more moving fiction character than Claire is not often drawn—and all the more so that the author refrains from forcing the note of pathos. There are a few passages in the book that may offend taste by their baldness of statement, but the impact and purport of the novel are the reverse of immoral.”
+ Outlook 126:333 O 20 ’20 150w
“The character drawing is vivid and satiric. As in other books of Mr Maxwell, the tale unfolds with flawless logic—it has the inevitability of a Greek tragedy.”
+ Pub W 98:1193 O 16 ’20 300w
“Mr Maxwell’s novel with a purpose is entirely free from that suspicion of dullness which, not always with justice, attaches to this type of fiction.”
+ − Sat R 129:393 Ap 24 ’20 540w
“The story is told at great length and with considerable attention to detail, but it is difficult to feel great interest in the heroine, whose anæmic personality pervades the whole atmosphere of the book and increases its dreariness.”
− + Spec 124:798 Je 12 ’20 120w
“The narrative is well handled—related with force and yet with restraint. The book will, perhaps, excite more curiosity than corrective resolution. But it is at least reasonably lifelike and convincing.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 31 ’20 300w