+ + Arena. 36: 682. D. ’06. 950w.
“The darker side of the picture, as seen by his heroine during her terrible initiation into the struggle for existence, is presented with power, but also with commendable sobriety and restraint.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 1: 633. My. 26. 280w.
“He is earnestly, even angrily intense with the sincerity of his motive. And his motive the noblest of all, is the brotherhood of man.” Richard Duffy.
+ Bookm. 24: 276. N. ’06. 670w.
“The style is somewhat Meredithian—brilliant, suggestive, prismatic, but oftentimes blinding through an excess of nervous energy that entices its possessor from a consistent point of view. As a performance in fiction this book hardly ranks with the same author’s ‘No. 5 John street.’”
+ – Lit. D. 33: 596. O. 27, ’06. 270w.
“A story that flashes with wit, glows with indignation, and beams with the steady light of an unshakable hope.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 158. My. 4, ’06. 390w.
“‘Ring in the new’ cannot but compel the absorbed interest of its readers, but more than this, it is worthy the writing and the reading, because it is a voice for the voiceless, because it needs must have its share in bringing about a social condition wherein at least no ‘evil is wrought by want of thought.’ Such a book deserves to be held high above the flood of ordinary fiction, in that its appeal is not to anything less than the noblest elements of character.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.