“The book shows a good measure of careful preparation. On the whole, interest is fairly well maintained.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w. |
“The tale is dramatic and has some thrilling situations.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. |
“The plot is too weak to support itself thru 400 pages, although the best part of it is near the close.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 80w. |
“The design is ambitious, the details carefully wrought, but Mr. Sheppard seems to us to have essayed, with inadequate equipment, a theme which would have suited Mr. Thomas Hardy in his earlier manner.”
| − + | Sat. R. 103: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w. |
“It would be difficult to overpraise the way in which the atmosphere of impending calamity is sustained, or the subtlety with which the growing degradation of the chief figure is traced. The mere writing is of the best, and there are passages of high imaginative beauty.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 350w. |