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_The London Chronicle_, in a review headed "THE ZENITH OF SHERLOCK
HOLMES," says:
"We should like to pay Dr. Doyle the highest compliment at our command.
It is not simply that this book is superior in originality and
construction to the earlier adventures of the great detective. Dr.
Doyle has provided a criminal who, as Mr. Holmes admits, is indeed a
foeman worthy of his steel.[*] Hitherto he has found it comparatively
easy to unmask his antagonists. But in the present case he finds
himself checkmated again and again. There is pitted against him a skill
nearly equal to his own, and he wins the game almost by a hair."
[*] "I tell you, Watson, this time we have a foeman who is
worthy of our steel."--_Sherlock Holmes._
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