=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘It has not a dull page from first to last. Any one with normal health and taste can read a book like this with real pleasure.’
=The Globe.=—‘Mr. W. E. Norris is a writer who always keeps us on good terms with ourselves. We can pick up or lay down his books at will, but they are so pleasant in style and equable in tone that we do not usually lay them down till we have mastered them; _A Victim of Good Luck_ is a more agreeable novel than most of this author’s.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=—‘_A Victim of Good Luck_ is in Mr. Norris’s best vein, which means that it is urbane, delicate, lively, and flavoured with a high quality of refined humour. Altogether a most refreshing book, and we take it as a pleasant reminder that Mr. Norris is still very near his highwater mark.’
=The Spectator.=—‘Mr. Norris displays to the full his general command of narrative expedients which are at once happily invented and yet quite natural—which seem to belong to their place in the book, just as a keystone belongs to its place in the arch.... The brightest and cleverest book which Mr. Norris has given us since he wrote _The Rogue_.’
=The Saturday Review.=—‘Novels which are neither dull, unwholesome, morbid, nor disagreeable, are so rare in these days, that _A Victim of Good Luck_ ... ought to find a place in a book-box filled for the most part with light literature.... We think it will increase the reputation of an already very popular author.’
=The Scotsman.=—‘_A Victim of Good Luck_, like others of this author’s books, depends little on incident and much on the conception and drawing of character, on clever yet natural conversation, and on the working out, with masterly ease, of a novel problem of right and inclination.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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=The Pall Mall Budget.=—‘For this week the only novel worth mentioning is Mrs. Steel’s _The Potter’s Thumb_. Her admirable _From the Five Rivers_, since it dealt with native Indian life, was naturally compared with Mr. Kipling’s stories. In _The Potter’s Thumb_ the charm which came from the freshness of them still remains. Almost every character is convincing, and some of them excellent to a degree.’