In an 1899 Leader article Cather writes: "A book full of strength and enthusiasm, vivid, human characters; strong situations and brilliant episodes that cling to the memory."
In a June 1899 Leader article Cather writes: Ouida's Ariadne "is full of display of this sort and of information and misinformation on Greek sculpture, dispensed with haughty assurance. To realize fully the garish superficiality of such work one has only to compare it with a masterpiece like George Moore's Evelyn Innes, which deals understandingly with the art which is its central theme."