“The vulgarity of it consists in the author’s effort to interpret the scandalous lives of two Don Juans by the free use of their own vocabularies.”
| − | Ind. 62: 603. F. 28, ’07. 130w. |
“It is a very tangled skein of events that this novel presents to the reader to unravel, and there is little unity of plan or plot, but these faults are partially atoned for by a certain freshness and exuberance of feeling and expression that give the book the stamp of human interest.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 130w. |
“The principal incidents of the story border on melodrama. There are some parts of genuine dramatic interest and the character of the rector is well drawn.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 91. F. 16, ’07. 130w. |
Lovett, Robert M. Winged victory. †$1.50. Duffield.
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The whole story is animated by the spirit of the heroine who champions thru early life the cause of a feeble-minded brother, and later that of an unsuccessful man whom she marries because he needs her. She was “winged in her hope; armed in her faith. In the presence of the great fulfillment of life all individual complications of mere living seemed contemptible and petty. She walked firmly, exulting in her strength.”