[*] “Countless touches show that Mr. Crawford thoroughly understands his ground and his people, with a psychological insight that renders especially interesting his theories and deductions.”
| + | Critic. 47: 579. D. ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “Indeed, it is hard to see wherein, within the limits, the work could have been better done. Mr. Crawford’s work is an unexcelled resumé for the historical scholar, the student of history, or for just the lover of good literature.”
| + + + | Lit. D. 31: 753. N. 18, ‘05. 550w. | |
| Nation. 81: 340. O. 26, ‘05. 40w. | ||
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 892. D. 16, ‘05. 90w. |
“In every way the edition is satisfactory.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 336. O. 7, ‘05. 50w. |
Crawford, F. Marion. [Whosoever shall offend.] [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
“Mr. Crawford’s technique becomes, if anything, more refined with each new work that he puts forth, but his substance grows thinner than ever. A forced mechanical invention marks the plot of ‘Whosoever shall offend,’ and the characters are but slightly modified variations of the types that he has been fashioning for the past score of years. The new novel is concerned with a polished villain, who murders his wife and seeks to murder his stepson, all with the sordid object of gaining their fortune for himself, and in the end is trapped and punished according to his deserts. It is all very cleverly managed, but the interest is of the mildest.”—Dial.
“It is a well-written, highly interesting melodrama.... The characters are all good types, the plot is strong, and the Italian atmosphere tempers the sensational occurrences to the colder northern imagination.”
| — + | Critic. 46: 477. My. ‘05. 100w. |