SOURCE: A review of A Change of Air, in the Sewanee Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, November, 1894, p. 98.

In the following review of A Change of Air, Elliott admires Hope's characterizations, but finds the novel less satisfying than The Prisoner of Zenda.

[In] A Change of Air, we find a short biographical sketch, a picture of Anthony Hope, and the fact that his full name is Anthony Hope Hawkins. Mr. Hawkins was born in 1863, is the son of a clergyman, a graduate of Oxford, a lawyer with chambers in the Middle Temple, stood as Liberal candidate for Parliament, was defeated by Viscount Curzon, and wrote his first book in 1890. A Change of Air is his seventh and latest story, and is in marked contrast to The Prisoner of Zenda. It is clever, but not as clever; it is humorous, bright, cheerful, and pathetic, but all in a less degree than...