| − + | Ind. 62: 1415. Je. 13, ’07. 340w. |
“So long as he wrote to prove the evil effects of wealth upon the children of rich parents, he expressed his ideas with power and a certain fierce distinction. But when he attempts to show how wealth may be disposed of for the good of society, he offers a Munchausen system of finance wearisome to read about.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 80w. |
“Mr. Phillips has written a strong wholesome story of contemporaneous American life.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w. |
“There is quite enough importance in the tendency which Mr. Phillips has in mind to make one wish that he might have painted it as tendency rather than as inevitable fact. He has written a forcible tract, however, and this is what we suppose he intended.”
| − + | Nation. 84: 85. Ja. 24, ’07. 450w. |
“The story exhibits all of Mr. Phillips’s strong qualities, it is interesting, and the characters are for the most part forcefully drawn. Its weakness lies in his treating a tendency as if it were an accomplished and universal fact of life.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 157. Mr. 16, ’07. 720w. |
“The many entanglements in the plot are skillfully straightened out in the end.”