“Carries you swiftly along with an absorbing love story, and charms you with the exceeding grace and skill of its telling.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 201. N. ’07. ✠ |
“This tale is characteristic of his genius. Judged as a mere novel of politics the book is brilliant, outshining the attractive but thin work of Disraeli, and much truer to human nature and history.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 475. O. 19. 310w. |
“Yet, fine as the story is in conception and in workmanship, it somehow lacks the bigness, the finality, the enduring interest of ‘The queen’s quair’ or ‘The fool errant.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + + − | Bookm. 26: 160. O. ’07. 1100w. |
“If ‘The stooping lady’ be not positively a great book, it at least has great qualities. Leaving aside a few careless moments, its style is such as cannot be surpassed, if indeed it can be matched, by more than one or two men of our day. It paints the manner of a period with altogether unusual truth and delicacy. Greatest virtue of all, it gives us knowledge of great men and women, displaying them under the stress of emotions that raise them out of the common and make them typical of humanity.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| + + − | Forum. 39: 266. O. ’07. 2040w. |
“All told, it is an admirable story, but as unfaithful in spirit to the times it is supposed to portray as it is loyal to that of the present.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1173. N. 14, ’07. 740w. |