SOURCE: “More Fiction,” in Nation, Vol. 80, No. 2083, June 1, 1905, pp. 440–442.

In the following excerpt, the unnamed reviewer praises the exuberance of Zangwill's style in The Celibates' Club.

The Celibates' Club is a collection of extravagant tales and character sketches which probably first saw the light in a comic paper. Each separate chapter is good enough for such a medium of publication, but the book is no better than an exhibition of the journalistic talent for writing up exhaustively from the slightest foundation of facts or fancy. Mr. Zangwill's way of writing up a subject is very superior. He is extraordinarily fluent; he can do almost anything with words—make puns, paradoxes, epigrams, striking phrases, run on in an amusing fashion long after his subject or suggestion is buried out of sight and forgotten. Sometimes he runs off into unmitigated nonsense, and then, except for the purposes of the comic...