"A jollier, brighter, breezier, more entertaining book
than 'The Colonel's Opera Cloak' has not been published
for many a day. We defy the coldest-blooded reader to
lay it down before it is finished, or to read it
through without feeling his time well spent. There is
plenty of satire in its pages, but it is good-natured
satire. The characters are sharply drawn--some of them
from nature, we fancy--and there is spice enough in the
way of incident to satisfy the most exacting palate. Of
course, everybody will read it, and, in that
presumption, we promise everybody two hours of thorough
enjoyment."--_Boston Transcript._
"The No Name Series abounds in contrasts, and that
between 'Signor Monaldini's Niece' and the present story
is among the most decided it has offered. This we do not
mention by way of disparagement. On the contrary, we can
see a distinctive merit in a series which includes so
much variety of aim and interest as this does, without
any regard for the conventional demand that a succession
of stories in the same binding should all be of one
school and in something the same tone. We can see why an
admirer of the last novel may at first be taken aback by
the light tone of this, and in so far disappointed; but
we shall expend no sympathy on that person. 'The
Colonel's Opera Cloak' is a bright and thoroughly
alluring little book, with which it would be foolish to
find fault on any score. And, more than that, it is well
written and brimming over with wit. The notion of a
story in which there is avowedly no hero or heroine
excepting an old opera cloak, is clever, and, so far as
we know, quite new.... We can assure every one who
wishes the double pleasure of laughter and literary
enjoyment, that this is one of the books to carry to the
country."--_Boston Courier._
"The author's touch is always that of the artist; it
always has the magic power of portraying individual men
and women, never giving us shadowy outlines, however few
or hurried the strokes of the pencil may be, and saying
this we say that the author of 'The Colonel's Opera
Cloak' has in large measure the best and most necessary
qualification for doing really fine work in fiction. If
he is still young, as certain things in his story
indicate that he is, his future efforts may well be
looked for hopefully."--_N.Y. Evening Post._
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