“We find wisdom, indeed, rather in the stuff of the story than in those often brilliant incidental comments on which no small part of her fame reposes. We suggest that in this book, wise and witty as her ‘chorus’ often is, she has a little abused that privilege by trying ostentatiously to live up to it.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 5: 314. S. 14, ’06. 600w.
“If the story, as said, mounts steadily, the reader, at least, is breathless much of the way under the suspense and under the cleverness. The ethical aspects are broad and deep.”
+ + – Nation. 83: 332. O. 18, ’06. 520w.
“In more ways than one, we are continually reminded of George Eliot; not that there is the faintest trace of imitation, but that Miss Cholmondeley has an equal insight into character and motive, a like power of analysis, a similar gift for pregnant sentences of humor and of wisdom.” M. Gordon Pryor Rice.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 697. O. 27, ’06. 1280w. N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
“This is not so well-rounded and satisfying a story as was ‘Red pottage.’”
+ – Outlook. 84: 533. O. 21, ’06. 130w.
“Is technically faulty in construction in that the critical point of the plot is reached in the early chapters, but the tenseness of the situation continues.”
+ – Outlook. 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 120w.