"A more powerful book than 'Bressant.' ... If the figures are mostly phantoms, they are phantoms which take a more powerful hold on the mind than many very real figures.... There are three scenes in this romance, any one of which would prove true genius."--Spectator.

"The character of the Egyptian, half mad and all wicked, is remarkably drawn.... Manetho is a really fine conception.... That there are passages of almost exquisite beauty here and there is only what we might expect."--Athenæum.

"In the delineation of idiosyncrasy, special and particular, and its effects on the lives of the personages of the story, the author may, without exaggeration, be said to be masterly. Whether in the long drawn-out development of character in the every-day life of the persons of the drama, or in the description of peculiar qualities in a single pointed sentence, he is equally skilful; while where pathos is necessary, he has it at command, and subdued sly humour is not wanting."--Morning Post.

"Her novel rises to a level far above that which cultivated women with a facile pen ordinarily attain when they set themselves to write a story.... Its grammar is faultless, its style is pure, flowing, terse, and correct, there is not a line of fine writing from beginning to end, and there is a total absence of anything like moralising, or the introduction of pretty ineffectual sermons.... It is as a study of character, worked out in a manner that is free from almost all the usual faults of lady writers, that 'Aileen Ferrers' merits a place apart from its innumerable rivals."--Saturday Review.