"Mr. Saltus is one of the most noteworthy of the younger school of novelists. His Mr. Incoul's Misadventure, Truth about Tristram Varick, Eden, and Transactions in Hearts are full of promise and brilliant talent. In the last named, however, his mannerisms are inartistically obvious, and he takes strange and inexcusable liberties with our language. He has established his position as the foremost literary exponent of pessimism in America, and that he is a worthy disciple of Schopenhauer is proved by his two striking works, The Anatomy of Negation and The Philosophy of Disenchantment. A third series of studies in contemporary pessimism is announced as forthcoming under the title Cimmeria." (Sharp)
(Text from American Sonnets)