"The action of the play is admirably compact and coherent, and it contains tragic situations which will afford pleasure not only to the student, but to the technical reader." _The Nation._
"It is the most powerful, vital, and truly tragical drama written by an American for some years. There is genuine pathos, mighty yet never repellent passion, great sincerity and penetration, and great elevation and beauty of language." _The Chicago Post._
"Mr. Rice ranks among America's choicest poets on account of his power to turn music into words, his virility, and of the fact that he has something of his own to say." _The Boston Globe._
"The whole play breathes forth the indefinable spirit of the Italian renaissance. In poetic style and dramatic treatment it is a work of art." _The Baltimore Sun._
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"Mr. Rice's work betrays wide sympathies with nature and life, and a welcome originality of sentiment and metrical harmony." _Sydney Lee._
"In his lyrics Mr. Rice's imagination works most successfully. He is an optimist--and in these days an optimist is irresistible--and he can touch delicately things too holy for a rough or violent pathos." _The London Star (James Douglas)._
"Mr. Rice's highest gift is essentially lyrical. His lyrics have a charm and grace of melody distinctively their own." _The London Bookman._
"Mr. Rice is keenly responsive to the loveliness of the outside world, and he reveals this beauty in words that sing themselves." _The Boston Transcript._
"Mr. Rice's work is everywhere marked by true imaginative power and elevation of feeling." _The Scotsman._
"Mr. Rice's work would seem to rank with the best of our American poets of to-day." _The Atlanta Constitution._
"Mr. Rice's poems are touched with the magic of the muse. They have inspiration, grace and true lyric quality." _The Book News Monthly._
"Mr. Rice's poetry as a whole is both strongly and delicately spiritual. Many of these lyrics have the true romantic mystery and charm.... To write thus is no indifferent matter. It indicates not only long work but long brooding on the beauty and mystery of life." _The Louisville Post._
"Mr. Rice is indisputably one of the greatest poets who have lived in America.... And some of these (earlier) poems are truly beautiful." _The Times-Union (Albany, N. Y.)_