“The story of the decline and fall of Whern is always
poignant and never dismal. The romance is of the stuff
of the story, seen by an author who knows the world we
live in.... The picture, for all of its rich colour and
noble gesture, is essentially true. And it is full of
that queer fascination exerted by greatness that is
passing or has passed.”—_Times Literary Supplement._
=Hamilton Fyfe in the _DAILY MAIL_ says:=
“About ‘Privilege’ I find it hard to write without
exaggeration. It is so truly imagined, this story of the
decline of an ancient family; so skilfully presented,
and written with so sure a hand, that we must put its
author among the most distinguished not only of our
younger but of all our novelists.... The entire book is
a piece of literature, satisfying from every point of
view.”
=_PUNCH_ says:=
“I can imagine few books that would give to some modern
Rip van Winkle a better understanding of the attitude of
aristocratic youth towards the life of to-day.... A
novel both individual and touched with a dignity too
rare in these days of slovenly fiction.”