“Mr. Chambers is so clever, has so keen a sense of character, that after enjoying his book, you ungratefully regard him with violent irritation. He has no right not to do even better! His abundant and interesting material is not thoroughly digested.” Mary Moss.
+ + – Bookm. 24: 157. O. ’06. 870w.
“Such books as this play with the glittering surface of life but have nothing to do with its deeper realities.” Wm. M. Payne.
– Dial. 41: 243. O. 16, ’06. 270w.
“A real rival to Mrs. Wharton’s ‘House of Mirth.’”
+ Ind. 61: 642. S. 13, ’06. 70w.
“The interpretation which Mrs. Wharton attempted of New York society in ‘The house of mirth,’ Robert Chambers has really accomplished in his new novel.”
+ Ind. 61: 877. O. 11, ’06. 1080w. Ind. 61: 1158. N. 15, ’06. 100w.
“Realistic in the extreme and to the extent of introducing slang and even profanity, it still has fine touches of sentiment and reveals an intimate knowledge of a species of human existence which, in a sense is as new and as modern as the motor and skyscraper.”