“To be quite frank and explicit, this kingdom of Kravonia is one of the dullest realms in which it has been our ill-fortune to wander.”
– + Acad. 71: 365. O. 13, ’06. 1300w.
“It is better reading than some of the author’s recent excursions into latter-day social life.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 508. O. 27. 440w.
“Anthony Hope has at last turned imitator of himself. That fact is the exact measure of the distance between ‘Sophia of Kravonia’ and ‘The prisoner of Zenda’. Well if we can’t have the fine original again, let us be thankful for an imitation so nearly perfect.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + Bookm. 24: 380. D. ’06. 1100w. + Ind. 61: 1499. D. 20, ’06. 210w.
“Wavering between a study of character and a rattling romance, Mr. Hope misses both opportunities, and his book, though pleasant to read, is disappointing.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 390w.
“The conspiracy which thickens the plot is capitally developed, and long before the matter is solved the reader has quite forgotten that at the outset there was a certain sense of oppressiveness in the very serious marshalling of documentary evidence, as if for the history of a nation or the biography of a nation’s hero.”