"First of all a novel, and an excellent one."--_Review of Reviews._
"It is a novel in that it has a simple and sympathetic romance for a
basis; it is a great novel in that it presents each typical phase of
modern life as a master would paint it, seizing the supreme moment and
interpreting its significance."--_New York Sun._
"Into it has gone so much thought, so much keen observation, so much
ripe reflection, that one lays it down with a feeling of respect
amounting almost to reverence for the man who has brought to the
complicated problems of our modern living such earnestness and such
ability."--_Interior, Chicago._
"The discriminating reader cannot fail to find a keen pleasure in the
fine literary art which the book displays, as well as the masterly
fashion in which the story is developed."--_Brooklyn Eagle._