“The author fails to convince us that his theory is without flaw, or that it could be depended upon in practice, to produce the results which he desires.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 436. Ap. 13. 140w. |
“A crude, shrieking dime novel is this story, and therefore not likely to be without its host of readers. It is an incendiary book as well.”
| − | Ind. 62: 798. Ap. 4, ’07. 370w. |
“The reader has an uncomfortable impression of a stuffed dragon and a stage St. George. But there are stirring incidents in the book, many pieces of lurid description, and not a little moralizing.”
| − + | Lit. D. 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 210w. |
“The delineation of character requires more literary art than Mr. Lawson, with all his red-hot, hyphenated adjectives, can show, and as for his plot, it steadily thins instead of thickens. Of course everyone that has been within a mile of Trinity church knows that the book, as a picture of Wall Street life and methods, is absurd.”
| − | Nation. 84: 201. F. 28, ’07. 410w. |
“The moral was Mr. Lawson’s first thought, perhaps, but the book shows him as a sentimentalist of the deepest dye. He quite loses in the depth of that sentiment sight of the fashion in which his moral turns and rends his own chosen personages and protagonists of the tragedy of greed.”