“The dialogue is full of witty and amiable satire of our own times, the barb being especially sharp for the ‘intelligentzia’ of all times.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:340 My ’20 460w
“It is impossible to overlook the roguish satire upon social affairs of the present day that Mr Phillpotts has woven into his story. The very presence and name of Bacchus proves that he has reference to the immediate present in writing of the far-away past.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 F 18 ’20 1600w + Dial 68:664 My ’20 80w
“The trouble with the book is the same as with all of Mr Phillpotts’s books—a lack of felicity which is not compensated for, as it is in the case of his master, Hardy, by a dour grandeur. ‘Evander’ particularly needed grace and there is none.”
− + Nation 110:304 Mr 6 ’20 400w
“The tale would, indeed, be worth reading merely for the grace and charm of its style, and its flexible, deft, and effective phrasing.”
+ N Y Times 25:89 F 15 ’20 900w
“A bit of irony impishly humorous, entirely delightful.”
+ N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 20w