We have given the above title to Mr A. St. Laurence's story as an alternative to his "Heart and Lute", for the chief interest that we have taken in its reading is in its pictures of the vigorous hard-working young Oxford athlete who is a comparatively indifferent student, and who falls hopelessly in love, and seals his fate during "Commemoration".
The story is a very attractive one, and it is admirably told, indeed told so well that one who has read it will look out for A. St. Laurence as eagerly as did the beautiful Miss Egerton for the gentleman who was ploughed for small. No doubt, that estimable young hero entered into an engagement which did not at all suit the author's purpose, but that is not at all to the point. The undergraduate, revelling in his cricket and his violin and avoiding his books and his chapel, is a delightful study. The novel is evidently written by a musician and an Oxford man, and he impressed his loves of Oxford and music on every page.
The Irish Times, May 17th, 1901.