+ Critic. 48: 475. My. ’06. 50w.
“For sheer entertainment this story is one of the best of the year, and it is by no means devoid of the qualities that appeal to the literary sense.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 263. Ap. 16, ’06. 210w.
“Is, in itself a harmless and in parts an entertaining and refreshing story, showing touches of imagination and of humor; but is none the less tainted with that peculiar flavor of cheapness—coming perilously near vulgarity.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 144. Mr. 10, ’06. 230w.
“The fault of the story is that it mingles the romantic, the burlesque, and the melodramatic rather indiscriminately.”
– Outlook. 82: 619. Mr. 17, ’06. 130w.
“The book is an ingenious fantasy, and the reader will find that the time he spends in reading it passes very pleasantly.”
+ Spec. 96: 390. Mr. 10, ’06. 280w.
MacDonnell, John de Courcy. King Leopold II., his rule in Belgium and the Congo. *$6. Cassell.