From the author of half a dozen novels Margaret Horton Potter. There is a mine of romance in the history of France of the eighteenth century, and into this Miss Margaret Horton Potter has successfully delved. Interwoven with a love story, there is much historical data in her novel which places it above a mere tale of the hour. It begins with a graphic picture of the intrigues and social life of the Court under Louis XV., where the hero, the Count de Mailly, is unfortunately in love with his cousin, Mme. De Chateauroux, the favourite of the King, who banishes the presumptuous young nobleman…That this cleverly written book is the work of a girl of twenty seems almost incredible. The carefully elaborated plot, the vivid scene painting of the times in which the story is placed, the literary style, the character studies, all bespeak mature thought and the skill of veteran rather than of a novice. (The New York Times, August 3, 1901)