_Standard_.--"It is a book that no one can afford to neglect. Both as literature and as life its appeal is irresistible."
_Morning Post_.--"Mr. Neil Lyons is a shrewd, penetrating, and sympathetic observer of the lives of the poor. Two of the most delightful characters we have met in fiction."
_Pall Mall Gazette_.--"It is pure, fast, sheer life, salted with a sense of humour; and the reader is sure of being lured as cunningly from sixpenny bit to sixpenny bit."
_Times_.--"Marked with the humour and grip with which Mr. Lyons visualizes an episode, and by his remarkable power of transcribing the talk of the less educated classes of the community."
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_Pall Mall Gazette_.--"It is doubtful whether since Dickens anyone has caught so exactly, and presented to us so artistically as Mr. Lyons, the sharp shrewd wit and the rich though acrid humour of the London gutter."
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_Outlook_.--"A rollicking sense of fun, an almost unbearable seriousness, a keen observation, a kind heart, and a genius entirely his own are among Mr. Neil Lyons' assets for writing."
_Daily News and Leader_.--"And when one has come to the end of this beautiful and moving story, it is worth while reading the book over again simply to observe the wonders of its technique ... indeed this is a much, much better book than any of us deserve."
_Observer_.--"So absorbing that one has the puerile itch to look at the end.... There are not three people in England who could have told it, or two who could have told it just that way."
_Globe_.--"This book is going to add enormously to Mr. Hueffer's reputation as a novelist. It is ... an amazingly clever psychological study ... it is a novel that is going to be read."
_Daily Telegraph_.--"There is the excellent writing, the play of imagination, the delicate attention to character that holds the mind in all his best work."
_Sunday Times_.--"Mr. Ford Madox Hueffer is a literary artist with a big future before him ... it is extremely effective and magnificently true."
_Outlook_.--"This novel ... is amazingly well written."
_Truth_.--"The story is told with such astonishing artfully artless naturalness that it absorbs you from the first page to the last."