SOURCE: "Gentleman, the Ladies!" in The New York Times Book Review, December 23, 1923, p. 23.

In the following excerpt from a review of the works of four women writers, Collins praises The Shadowy Third, comparing Glasgow's style and technique to that of Guy de Maupassant.

[Ellen Glasgow] has told the truth about life as she has observed it and . . . she has done it in pure, chaste, limpid, grammatical English cast in form that constitutes art. She has made herself master of a style that has no superior and few peers among the fiction writers of the day in this country. This distinction of style has been characteristic of all her work since The Descendant, but it is particularly true of The Miller and the Old Church, Virginia, and The Shadowy Third. In addition she knows the value of atmosphere, she is an expert character builder with original ideas and she...