“She may be trusted at all events to be at once penetrating and human.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 372. Je. 16, ’06. 200w.
“As a character study and in point of workmanship it is quite on a level, however with ‘Divine fire,’ although it has neither the range, substance, nor imaginative power of that story. A pathetic little tale told with the most delicate feeling.”
+ Outlook. 83: 818. Ag. 4, ’06. 250w.
Sinclair, May. [Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson.).] $1.50. Dodge, B. W.
“There is novelty in the conception of Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson, as strangely assorted a pair as ever foregathered between the covers of a novel.... Nevill Tyson ... is a man of plebeian birth and cosmopolitan education, a sentimental brute with a veneer of cleverness and polish.... Thrust by accident into the position of an English country gentleman, he commits the fatal error of marrying a pretty girl who is universally regarded as a fool.... She loves her husband with a devotion so complete as to blind him and others to its true nature. For him she sacrifices first her child and finally her life. His return for her devotion is to desert her, to accuse her of infidelity, and to leave her again to die heart-broken while he finds a hero’s death in Africa.”—Bookm.
“It is a clever, original, distinctive first novel.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ – Bookm. 23: 535. Jl. ’06. 900w.
“The sketch makes a vivid impression upon the reader’s mind, despite its faults.”