“Mr. McCarthy is at his buoyant best.”
+ + Acad. 71: 421. O. 27, ’06. 130w.
“The story is a pleasant piece of work.”
+ Ath. 1906. 2: 543. N. 3. 210w.
“Lacks some of the historical interest and the odd situations that were the strong features of ‘If I were king’ but the new novel has a touch of the originality of construction which made a success of the François Villon book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 775. N. 24, ’06. 360w.
“Lightly amusing, but of very little weight or force, is this novel.”
+ Outlook. 84: 892. D. 8, ’06. 50w.
“It is altogether an admirable historical novel of the lighter type, written with a jaunty elegance which is most effective.”