“She merely irritates when she might have amused.”
– Acad. 70: 40. Ja. 13, ’06. 410w.
“Here is a story curiously told rather than a really curious story.”
– + Ath. 1906, 1: 43. Ja. 13. 80w.
“The writer seems to have absorbed a strange miscellany of facts, legends, and theories, which she has poured out without any regard to form or coherency.”
– + Lond. Times. 4: 445. D. 15, ’06. 340w.
“The trouble with the book as fiction of the hour is the leisurely way of it, the detail of it, and the faintness of the chief love interest already mentioned.”
– + N. Y. Times. 11: 437. Jl. 7, ’06. 490w.
“There are many scenes in it which are very interesting, and even thrilling, but there is no cohesion between the different parts of the story.”