| + − | Bookm. 25: 88. Mr. ’07. 560w. |
“Mrs. Steel is so wise a woman and so admirable a writer that her work always gives pleasure of a refined sort, but the present story offers only a pale reflection of the power displayed in her novels of Indian life.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 225. Ap. 1, ’07. 260w. |
“The book is a beautiful story, beautifully told. It emerges quite evidently from a full mind, a wide experience and an appeased and noble outlook upon life.”
| + + | Ind. 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 320w. |
“There is a certain literary distinction in Mrs. Steel’s new story which lifts it well above the novels of the hour.”
| + + | Lit. D. 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w. |
“The actual story told is so unimportant and uninteresting that a novelist of her competence would hardly have written it without ulterior motives; and one is driven, therefore to search for symbolism, and to find it, though the relation between the symbol and the thing symbolized is not invariably clear.”
| + − | Lond. Times. 5: 271. Ag. 3, ’06. 500w. |
“Lavishness, in fact, is the note of the whole story.”