“However one takes it, it is a novel exposition; there is much reality in these persons, not least in the figure of Susan’s irresponsible and almost incorrigible father.” H. W. Boynton
+ Bookm 51:343 My ’20 240w
“If he had nothing else, he would be sure to win recognition for the sheer beauty of his workmanship. Indeed it is easier to quarrel with some of the natural results of his process of spiritual emancipation than with his illustrations of it in characters, or with his manner of setting it forth.” H. I. Gilchrist
+ Dial 68:794 Je ’20 2500w
“His story is not quite as persuasive as his philosophy. His women are suspiciously fine in fibre and amazingly articulate. Attractive as they are, they remain a little dim. And the dimmest of all is Susan, whom Mr Watson adores and through whose words and actions he chiefly projects his sense of the new moral world that is being created by all sorts of people in many places today.”
+ − Nation 110:373 Mr 20 ’20 600w
“Just what Susan Zalesky emancipates into is a little difficult to conceive, and sounds, on the whole, much less interesting than the rather fascinating story of her procedure. Judged more freely, however, ‘Deliverance’ is interesting and delightful for other qualities than its processes. It comes in many ways as near the art of the Russian novelists as any English novel.” R. V. A. S.
+ − New Repub 24:128 S 29 ’20 430w
“Each reader will determine for himself whether or no Mr Watson’s message is worth this unpleasant ragout.”
− N Y Times 25:240 My 9 ’20 550w