“Rises high above the level of common day fiction. In Miss Willcock’s elaborate descriptions we discern a certain scraping of stage scenery being shifted. In the same way there is unnecessary harping on such indefinable elements as ‘race-processes’ and ‘electric forces of the ages’ unnecessary reductions of action and feeling to terms of biology and prehistoric anthropology.”
| + + − | Nation. 85: 79. Jl. 25, ’07. 570w. |
“A helpful and heartening story, not because any of its characters are particularly high or heroic in their accomplishment, but because it conveys that life itself in its simple, homely, everyday guise is a thing worth while.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 365. Je. 8, ’07. 990w. |
“A very remarkable piece of work, and not less interesting than remarkable.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 190w. | |
| Sat. R. 103: 433. Ap. 6, ’07. 210w. |
“No one except the serious-minded reader who loves a problem novel should embark upon ‘The wingless victory.’”
| + − | Spec. 98: 679. Ap. 27, ’07. 210w. |
Williams, Archibald. [How it works: dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and their application to apparatus in common use.] $1.25. Nelson.
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