["Blackerchief Dick" is a story] to please a young rather than a grown-up public and so the review of one young reader may be quoted—"it is jolly exciting—all about smugglers and buxom wenches." That is on the whole a very fair description…. [Blackerchief Dick] is very good fun in his way, and the worst that can be said against him is that he is rather too like Captain Hook. He used his knife once too often and that inartistically when he stabbed Anny, the beautiful and virtuous maid at the Ship Inn. A story full of such "rollicking tushery" should surely have had a happy ending.

"Fiction: 'Blackerchief Dick'," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1923), No. 1129, September 6, 1923, p. 590.