− + Ath p79 Ja 16 ’20 750w
“Not for the average reader. Good work but not remarkably good.”
+ − Booklist 16:345 Jl ’20
“The novel as a whole is excessively chaotic and immature, an obvious attempt at a youthful smartness which seems incapable of artistic restraint. Mr Agate has been a wide reader, but he shows at the present moment little power of assimilation.” E. F. E.
− + Boston Transcript p7 My 8 ’20 900w
“A first and promising novel.”
+ − Dial 69:102 Jl ’20 90w
“Undoubtedly Mr Agate has both talent and promise. Today he is not an ageless portent but a beginner with very much to learn.”
− + Nation 110:772 Je 5 ’20 850w New Repub 23:235 Jl 21 ’20 550w
“It is a sober-minded book, this novel of Mr Agate’s. But it is also a very rich book, rich in character, in thought, in understanding, in comment upon life and art, original in style and treatment. We are much mistaken if Mr James E. Agate has not definitely ‘arrived.’”