Thurston, Katherine Cecil. [Gambler.] †$1.50. Harper.
“The author throws herself too ardently into the thick of the fight to judge the relative importance of scenes and incidents. But the story is told with warm sympathy and with much insight into motive and character.”
+ – Acad. 70: 181. F. 24, ’06. 620w.
“It interests us as showing, we fancy, a zeal for the portrayal of character which the writer’s last success did not display.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 259. Mr. 3. 320w.
“If ‘The gambler’, which is a better book than ‘The masquerader’, shall prove to be less popular, we shall personally ascribe the fact to the very unfortunate illustrations that misrepresent the text.” R. W. Kemp.
+ + Bookm. 22: 361. D. ’05. 2390w.
“It falls short of the standard which ‘The circle’ and ‘The masquerader’ have established for their author. ‘The gambler’ is a work that interests you, but it does not vastly enhance Mrs. Thurston’s fame.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 171. F. 3, ’06. 690w.
“The characters are conventional through and through, in body, heart and soul. The style of the book is diffuse, inexact, inelegant. The writer has no very clear idea of what is her plot.”