“The story is written with much dramatic power and with fine restraint as well. The chief fault of the novel, is that at times, notably in the last hundred pages, the action drags.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 719. N. 3, ’06. 690w. N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 170w.
“The latter part of the story is tragic and moves with some vigor—but too late!”
– + Outlook. 84: 581. N. 3, ’06. 140w.
“The author’s style has an even carefulness. It has no compelling illumination, no gift for happy phrase, and is never impregnated with the sense of character; but it lends itself to the landscape passages of which he is fond, and retains throughout a literary finish.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 401. S. 29, ’06. 730w.
“Mr. Hichens’s style harmonises excellently with his subject. Its colour is at times rather hectic, but in the main it seems to heighten the effect of a remarkably interesting and dramatic study of the survival of pagan and primitive instincts.”
+ Spec. 97: 404. S. 22, ’06. 810w.
Hichens, Robert. [Garden of Allah.] $1.50. Stokes.
“From the standpoint of the author, in so far as he has vouchsafed to disclose it, the ending of the story is forced and inartistic.” Duffield Osborne.