“A novel of more than usual literary excellence. The reader’s sympathy with this story will depend almost entirely upon his conception of the importance of conventionally fixed morality.”

+ N Y Times p24 N 7 ’20 470w

“Like much latter-day fiction, this work has numerous touches of interest and reality; but, as a whole, gives an effect of weakness.”

− + Sat R 129:193 F 21 ’20 230w

“Such a tale might be sensational, but, in Miss Villars’s telling, it is delicate.”

+ Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 29 ’20 420w

“Obviously the war should not have been allowed to intrude; it spoils everything. But one day she may write a book as good from cover to cover as the first hundred pages of ‘The broken laugh.’”

+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p769 D 18 ’19 480w

VILLIERS, FREDERIC, il. Days of glory. il *$5 Doran 940.49

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