University of Virginia Library

This novel of American University life presents the struggle for life that goes on wherever men are gathered. It is a tale of the battle of men for leadership, of strength and craft, of wealth and competition. It is a story full of battle and defeat and victory. The Torch is as engrossing as a romance of derring-do. —New York Mail and Express.

The book is clever and entertaining, and likely to be found so by every class of readers. Its theme is novel, its incidents unhackneyed, and its interest of the live and up-to-date sort. College men in particular should read it. The author is to be congratulated on having produced a novel of originality and distinction.—Indianapolis Journal.

There are scenes in The Torch that will be numbered among the few scenes in American fiction that are really a pleasure to remember.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

As a picture of University life of today from the standpoint of the men who mold it, the book is admirable and full of keen, unprejudiced observation.—Boston Herald.

The Torch is an admirably well written novel of sustained interest and cumulative force. —Philadelphia Press.