+ + – Lit. D. 33: 357. S. 15, ’06. 370w. Lit. D. 33: 593. O. 27, ’06. 500w. + + Lit. D. 33: 857. D. 8, ’06. 90w.
“With all its palpable defects upon it, this novel was framed for popularity. It is emphatically not for the literary epicure.”
+ – Nation. 83: 246. S. 20, ’06. 140w.
“Mr. Robert W. Chambers has taken the material of Mrs. Wharton’s ‘House of mirth’ and made it over. Like Mrs. Wharton, Mr. Chambers shows you the brightest and best touched with the poison; unlike Mrs. Wharton, he refuses to permit, much less to organize, a conspiracy of bitter circumstances which shall assist the poison in its cruel work and bring everything to a bitter end.” H. I. Brock.
+ + – N. Y. Times. 11: 548. S. 8, ’06. 1160w.
“A particularly good story.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 797. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“While the novel may be at heart no more pessimistic, socially speaking, than Mrs. Wharton’s ‘The House of mirth,’ it lacks the delicate perception and fine literary shading of that searching analysis.”
+ Outlook. 84: 141. S. 15, ’06. 240w.
“If Mr. Chambers had only taken the time to reconstruct the volume, prune it of superfluous conversations, and infuse into it a little more of the heroism his title suggests, he would have had a novel of real significance.”