(28 December 1897). Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi, San Francisco Call ("I have never read any of Mr.Read's stories, although they often have been thrust insinuatingly into my lap by railroad newsboys and peanut butchers...")
(14 March 1897). Music and the Drama, Kansas City Journal, p. 11, col. 1 (critical review of first version of play)
(24 December 1897). Amusements, Salt Lake Herald, p. 8, col 5 ("Another dramatization of Opie Read's novel had been furnished Mr. Robson and produced with indifferent success, but the actor, clinging to the idea that there were dramatic possibilities in the character of Lemuel Jucklin, engaged Thomas to re-write the play entire.")
