6–18998.
“The prolific Mr. Oppenheim has again brought forth a mouse.” (Nation.) It is a story of English politics in which one Mannering retired from the political arena, is dragged back to the scene of his former successes by the villain of the plot, there to suffer intrigues of both love and politics.
| Ath. 1906, 2: 473. O. 20. 150w. |
“Mr. Oppenheim is one of the few writers who can make a political novel as interesting as a good detective story where the reader is expecting some one to be shot on every page.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1375. D. 5, ’07. 210w. |
“This is a story that grips one from the start, notwithstanding its opening, which contains a dialog of platitudes.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 534. O. 12, ’07. 480w. |
“The truth is, Mr. Oppenheim’s manner is a bit too candidly professional. He has done the trick many times, and is confident of doing it many times more; one may imagine him blandly aware of the fact that it is not much of a trick after all.”
| − + | Nation. 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 440w. |