SOURCE: A review of Jacob Stahl, in The Bookman, June, 1911, p. 144.

In the following review, the anonymous critic praises the "bioscopic methods" of Beresford in Jacob Stahl, but notes that Beresford fails to fully develop his cast of characters.

There is another Richmond in Mr. Arnold Bennett's field, for Jacob Stahl goes by rights side by side on the shelf with The Old Wives' Tale and Clayhanger. Jacob, in whose veins runs mixed blood that includes a little German and a little Jew, falls out of his perambulator in early infancy and injures his spine. He begins to walk when he is fifteen, thanks altogether to the ministrations of a delightful Aunt Hester. Too delicate a plant for the rough and tumble of school, he derives instruction of a slender and disordered character from a tutor, and is eventually articled to an architect. He is weak-willed but imaginative...