“At one stroke a delicate psychological study is metamorphosed into a Wilkie Collins melodrama.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + — | Bookm. 21: 366. Je. ‘05. 710w. |
“As a piece of story-telling, it is almost good. Only, unfortunately, the heroine does not in the least belong to this era of the world.”
| + — | Critic. 46: 563. Je. ‘05. 200w. |
“The charm is essentially one of style, for the plot is not remarkable, and the situations verge upon the melodramatic.” W. M. Payne.
| + + — | Dial. 38: 388. Je. 1, ‘05. 270w. |
“In this second and more critical reading the careful workmanship of the writers is everywhere apparent.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + + + | Forum. 37: 109. Jl. ‘05. 670w. |
“A tale which, had it but broken off 100 pages from the end, might have ranked with the few things which bear reading more than once.”
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 153. My. 12, ‘05. 580w. |