"The whole book is a brilliant defence of Evolution, a scholarly
statement of the case. Never before has that great science been so
presented; never before has there been such a passionate yet thrilling
appeal."--_Courier Journal._
"This is a tremendous subject to put into a novel; but the effort is so
daring, and the treatment so frank and masterly on its scientific side,
that the book is certain to command a wide hearing, perhaps to provoke
wide controversy."--_Tribune_, Chicago.
"'When a man has heard the great things calling to him, how they call,
and call, day and night, day and night!' This is really the foundation
idea, the golden text, of Mr. James Lane Allen's new and remarkable
novel."--_Evening Transcript_, Boston.
"In all the characteristics that give Mr. Allen's novels such
distinction and charm 'The Reign of Law' is perhaps supreme ... but it
is pre-eminently the study of a soul ... religion is here the dominant
note."--_The New York Times' Saturday Review._
"In David there is presented one of the noblest types of our fiction;
the incarnation of brilliant mentality and splendid manhood.... No
portrait in contemporary literature is more symbolic of truth and
honor."--_The Times_, Louisville.
"Mr. Allen has a style as original and almost as perfectly finished as
Hawthorne's, and he has also Hawthorne's fondness for spiritual
suggestion that makes all his stories rich in the qualities that are
lacking in so many novels of the period.... If read in the right way, it
cannot fail to add to one's spiritual possessions."--_San Francisco
Chronicle._