“‘The great impersonation’ is a very decided improvement on the productions which have recently been flowing from the excessively prolific pen of Mr E. Phillips Oppenheim. The main idea is a good one and many of the details are well managed.”
+ − N Y Times 25:10 Ja 11 ’20 550w
“Mr Oppenheim certainly springs a genuine surprise upon his readers in the outcome of this story. Unfortunately, it is often the case that things that are novel and surprising are not very convincing, and that is true here.”
+ − Outlook 124:161 Ja 28 ’20 120w
Reviewed by Doris Webb
Pub W 96:1691 D 27 ’19 280w
“The plot is exceedingly ingenious.”
+ Spec 125:675 N 20 ’20 40w
“He taxes one’s credulity, however, in asking the acceptance of the Englishman’s magic rejuvenation and revolutionary alterations in character and habit.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p15a Ja 18 ’20 420w The Times [London] Lit Sup p669 O 14 ’20 200w