“Mr Galsworthy has written better plays than these, but if you care for his plays at all you will find them worth reading.”
+ Ind 104:70 O 9 ’20 180w
“Of the new plays the first, A bit of love, is undeniably the weakest.... The skin-game has a more timeless touch. It takes the tragicomedy of all human conflict, localizes it narrowly, embodies it with the utmost concreteness, and yet exhausts its whole significance. Galsworthy has never derived a dramatic action from deeper sources in the nature of man; he has never put forth a more far-reaching idea nor shown it more adequately in terms of flesh and blood.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ Nation 110:732 My 29 ’20 1100w
“To the reader who revolts against the rather sickly sentiment of the first of them and who has smiled half-heartedly at the forced comedy, in which the same sentiment still appears, in the second, the virility and grasp of the third comes as a tonic.” S. C. C.
− + New Repub 24:172 O 13 ’20 760w
“These three plays will hardly add much to the fame of John Galsworthy, although, on the other hand, enough skill and command of character is evidenced to render them interesting additions to his work.”
+ − N Y Times p15 S 19 ’20 700w
“‘A bit o’ love,’ ‘The foundations,’ and ‘The skin game’ display ability of a high order. That fact is presumed in their authorship and is verified in their perusal. But all three have an effect of interlude or byplay; they are corollaries to earlier and weightier dicta.” O. W. Firkins
+ − Review 3:396 O 27 ’20 1100w