Mr. DOUGLAS SLADEN in =The Queen=.—“A remarkably clever book. . . . There is no disputing the ability with which the writer handles her subject. I say _her_ subject, because the minuteness of the touches, and the odd, forcible style in which this book is written, point to it being the work of a female hand. The book is an eminently readable one, and it is never dull for a minute.”
=Daily Telegraph.=—“It is a study of one of the worst passions which can ruin a life-time and mar all human happiness—one of the worst, not because it is necessarily the strongest, but because of its singular effect in altering the complexion of things, transforming love into suspicion, and filling its victim with a petulant and unreasonable madness. All this Anthony Vert understands, and can describe with very uncommon power. The soul of a jealous woman is analysed with artistic completeness, and proved to be the petty, intolerant, half-insane thing it really is. . . . The plot is well conceived, and well carried out. Anthony Vert may be congratulated on having written a very clever novel.”
=The Monitor.=—“A wonderful piece of writing. The only modern parallel we can find is supplied in Mr F. C. Philip’s ‘As in a Looking Glass.’”
=World.=—“As the study of a jealous soul, ‘The Green Passion’ is a success, and psychological students will be delighted with it. . . . The tragedy which forms the _dénouement_ to this story is of such a nature as to preclude our doing more than remotely alluding to it, for he (or is it she?) has portrayed an ‘exceedingly risky situation.’”
=Whitehall Review.=—“In ‘The Green Passion’ the author traces with much ability, and not a little analytical insight, the progress of jealousy in the breast of a woman who is born with a very ‘intense,’ although not a very deep, nature. . . . There is in Mr Vert’s work a certain tendency towards realism which has its due effect in making his characters real. They are no loosely-built fancies of the journalistic brain, but portraits—almost snapshot portraits—of men and women of to-day.”
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