SOURCE: “All Too Historical,” in The Nation, Vol. 140, No. 3630, 1935, p. 133.

In the following review, Van Doren offers a negative assessment of Another Caesar.

Much of this novel [Another Caesar] sounds like the novels of Captain Mayne Reid, who never let any information escape his reader if he could help it. When Herr Neumann, for instance, has got Louis Napoleon to that point in his career at which Miss Howard, his English mistress, is about to enter it, he lets us have the following facts full in the face:

Howard is one of the great names of England. The head of the Howard family, the Duke of Norfolk, is the first of the dukes and the hereditary Earl Marshal of England; while the Earls of Suffolk, Carlisle, Nottingham, and the Lord Howard of Glossop represent in the peerage the younger line. In this connection we think also of John...