"Mr. Fawcett is admirably equipped to write of life in New York, the city of his birth (over forty years ago), of his education, and of his literary work. The characters that he presents are admirably drawn in bold, clear lines. He observes society keenly, and some of his bits of 'showing up' are delightfully done."--_Public Opinion_ (Washington, D. C.). "It is one of the latest of Mr. Fawcett's brilliant stories of New York life. One uses the term advisedly. His work has both depth and resplendence--the two qualities that produce the effect we term brilliancy, and which, when used in its full significance, signifies a great deal. Mr. Fawcett's novels reveal the 'veined humanity' of the complicated, intense life of the highly-organized society of the nineteenth century."--_Boston Traveller._