“In a unique combination of diary and straight novelistic construction, Mr Caine has done something for the novel which one Reizenstein once did for the stage in ‘On trial’—he has found a new form.”

+ Bookm 52:273 N ’20 220w Lit D p92 O 9 ’20 2800w

“The book is original and exceedingly well done.”

+ N Y Evening Post p9 S 25 ’20 200w

“From the moment you meet Noel Carton, his wife, and his situation you are deeply interested in all three. You don’t like him nor yet his wife, but he is a vivid, actual creature, and he makes every one, perhaps we might better say everything, he touches, vivid and compelling.”

+ N Y Times p24 S 5 ’20 1300w

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

+ Review 3:376 O 27 ’20 100w

“Not every reader is likely to enjoy this grim mixture of realism and fantasy, but it is impossible to deny the power with which it is written.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p353 Je 3 ’20 180w