“The story is well-planned and ably engineered, but there is too much of every thing; if the author has been less generous, the reader could follow these extraordinary happenings with equal pleasure and considerably less fatigue.”
| + − | Acad. 73: 872. S. 7, ’07. 360w. |
“He belongs ... to the select body which we once called the ‘Higher sensationalists,’ and of which Stevenson is the master.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 232. Ag. 31. 230w. |
“We cannot say very much for Mr. Watson’s Americans. Their acts and their words are reflections of an Englishman’s fertile imagination rather than products of observation.” Wm. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 42: 226. Ap. 1, ’07. 160w. |
“It is a fast and furious melodrama written for the special delight of the gallery gods.”
| − | Ind. 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 320w. |
“Flesh and blood are essential to stir the emotions, and these men and women are solid wax.”