“We may say at once that it is not as remarkable a performance as its predecessor, but we must quickly add that it is so far above the run of novels as to afford a high degree of intellectual satisfaction.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 43: 250. O. 16, ’07. 520w. |
“The ‘Helpmate’ is one of the most truthful novels written in many a day and therein lies its dignity and worth.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 877. O. 10, ’07. 820w. |
“Probably the most effective, the most humanly splendid story of the year comes from May Sinclair.”
| + + | Ind. 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 40w. |
“Not that the book is in any sense a sermon. It is far too artistically and honestly a novel, informed with sagacity of mind, and admirably distinguished in expression.”
| + + | Lit. D. 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 420w. |
“A novel which, though abounding in cleverness, must, for various reasons be held to have missed a success very nearly attained, must on the whole be regarded as a brilliant failure. I have been tempted to examine this failure—if so it be—in the light of the British convention.” Eleanor Cecil.
| − + | Living Age. 255: 579. D. 7, ’07. 6950w. |