“So far as the matter of scene painting goes, ‘The call of the blood’ recalls the splendid richness of colour in ‘The garden of Allah’ while in all other respects it serves only to emphasize the marked superiority of the earlier volume.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 24: 386. D. ’06. 330w.
“Mr. Hichens, it seems, has committed the strategic crime of not making his new novel even better than its predecessor. Yet ‘The call of the blood’ is a good book, perhaps even a great book.”
+ + – Current Literature. 41: 699. D. ’06. 820w.
“There is not enough power in this story and too much decadent fineness.”
– + Ind. 61: 1229. N. 22, ’06. 710w.
“The book is entertaining and well worth reading.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 727. N. 17, ’06. 210w.
“Some of the Sicilian descriptions are quite as remarkable as anything Mr. Hichens has done.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 858. D. 8, ’06. 70w. + – Lond. Times. 5: 305. S. 7, ’06. 510w. + – Nation. 83: 396. N. 8, ’06. 450w.