| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 18. Ja. 12, ’07. 750w. |
“‘The far horizon’—with its very obvious faults—has one great virtue: creative spontaneity; and that is so precious, in the mass of perfunctory work, that criticism must be delicate.” M. B. M.
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 77. F. 9, ’07. 1110w. |
“A certain subjectiveness of style distinguishes it, a sort of reminiscent touch, which by some conjuror’s trick becomes the most objective thing in the world, and as a result the characters actually live and move and have a very real existence.” Madison Cawein.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 1440w. |
“It is more than a little puzzling that a writer of Lucas Malet’s experience and skill should have produced a novel bearing so many dreary resemblances to a ‘first book.’” Olivia Howard Dunbar.
| − | No. Am. 184: 645. Mr. 15, ’07. 1380w. |
“One notes first that it has the negative merit of being entirely devoid of any passages of questionable taste. Affirmatively speaking, its highest merit is in the distinction and quiet nobility of its chief figure, Dominic Iglesias.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 310w. |
“It seems incongruous, almost unseemly, as coming from the pen of one born a Kingsley.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.