The Scotsman says:--"Mr. Joseph Hocking's 'Fields of Fair Renown' is a novel with a purpose, and the theme is worked out with a good deal of force and effective power.... it is both interesting and powerful."
The Dundee Advertiser says:--"Mr. Hocking has produced a work which his readers of all classes will appreciate.... There are exhibited some of the most beautiful aspects of disposition."
The Scotsman says:--"In all the annals of fiction a more ingenious or startlingly original plot has not been recorded."
The Literary World says:--"Those who delight in tales of adventure should hail 'Rainbow Island' with joyous shouts of welcome. Rarely have we met with more satisfying fare of this description than in its pages."
The Birmingham Post says:--"An excellent detective tale, brimful of adventure. Told in Mr. Tracy's best style."
The Evening Standard says:--"So admirable, so living, so breathlessly exciting a book. The magnificent realism of the lighthouse and its perils, the intense conviction of the author, that brings the very scene he pictures before the reader's eyes with hardly a line of detached description, the interest of the terrible dilemma of the cut off inhabitants of the 'Pillar' are worthy of praise from the most jaded reader."
The Dundee Advertiser says:--"The name of Louis Tracy on the covers of a volume is a sufficient guarantee that the contents are worthy of perusal. His latest novel, 'Heart's Delight,' establishes more firmly than ever the reputation which he founded on 'The Final War'; like that notable book it has a strong martial flavour."
The Manchester Evening News says:--"It is with the utmost suspense that the reader will follow the adventurous and perilous career of Comte Bertram de Conflans.... A cleverly written book."
The Tribune:--"A series of exciting escapades and amateur detective work, eminently compelling and full of interest."
The Nottingham Guardian says:--"A skilfully presented study of the subtle moods of a woman's heart. The picture of Muriel Attledon's subjection to a husband who slights and neglects her while he flirts with another woman, and covers his disloyalty with a specious cloak of solicitude, is finely sketched."
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of First Person Paramount, by Ambrose Pratt