| + + | Bookm. 25: 430. Je. ’07. 1120w. |
“The reader feels as tho he has been wandering in a land of grotesques. More than a touch of exaggeration mars some of his best tales.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 694. S. 19, ’07. 360w. |
“Although in one way the book may be taken as an ironical open letter to the Christian nations, showing them what their centuries of oppression have done to debase their victim, it is also a work rich in understanding and humor, a very quick and true sympathy, and that fearless satirical directness which, when it comes (as it does so very infrequently) from one of this race, is always so telling.”
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 158. My. 17, ’07. 670w. |
“In reading these stories (fourteen in all) it is impossible not to feel that merely as a writer of fiction Mr. Zangwill has gained greatly in the past decade. Moreover, his point of view has broadened, and while his sympathies and enthusiasms are as distinctively national as ever, while he still loves so tenderly that he can find fault, or even laugh, he never falls into that partisan sentimentalism which would rob his Jewish pictures of their unflinching sincerity.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 478. My. 23, ’07. 420w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 70w. |
“They have all the realism, the almost grim impartiality of their predecessors.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 387. Je. 15, ’07. 140w. |
“They have the compelling force of reality.”