CLAUDIUS CLEAR says in the _British Weekly_:--“It seems to me to be the
best and healthiest of all Miss Corelli’s books. She is carried along
for the greater part of the tale by a current of pure and high feeling,
and she reads a most wholesome lesson to a generation much tempted to
cynicism--the eternal lesson that love is the prize and the wealth of
life.... The story is full of life from beginning to end ... it will
rank high among the author’s works alike in merit and popularity.”
THE STANDARD says:--“Miss Corelli gives a brisk, indeed, a passionate
tale of loneliness in search of love, of misery seeking solace, of the
quest of a multi-millionaire for friendship that is disinterested and
affection that has no purchase price. It is distinctly good to find a
preacher with so great a congregation lifting up her voice against the
selfishness of the time, and urging upon us all the divinity of faith,
charity, and loving-kindness.”
THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE says:--“It is a pleasant and absorbing romance,
brimful of varied incident, and written with the alternate vigour
and quieter charm that are the secrets of Miss Corelli’s phenomenal
popularity.”
THE BOOKMAN says:--“I am going to praise it because I have found it
worth my money. It fulfils the first and most urgent duty of a novel in
having a good story to tell and telling it interestingly.”