| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 250w. |
“Under a veil of pseudo-realism can no more disguise its fundamental melodrama than cottonseed oil can escape notice in a salad dressing.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| − | Bookm. 26: 163. O. ’07. 630w. |
“The treatment is marred by the note of insincerity, and the virtuous types that the author contrasts with the vicious ones are too unreal to be taken seriously. It has certain elements of positive excellence, such as constructive art, poetical elegance of diction, and a sympathetic touch.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 350w. |
“A sort of perverted Sabbath school story about the younger set in New York society.”
| − | Ind. 63: 756. S. 26, ’07. 950w. |
“This argument is the weakness in his story, because it is out of place, and it is not sustained by the lives of the characters portrayed.”
| − | Ind. 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 120w. |
“The purpose of the novel—the inculcation of the idea that divorce does not terminate all the obligations of marriage—is clearly and interestingly evolved, in spite of the exaggerations and artificialities of expression with which it is at times obscured.”