Artfully made pictures of beautiful scenes are the most distinguishing feature of this film, which tells a story of an older brother's weakness leading a younger brother into vice and the older brother's shouldering the responsibility of his brother's crime. The scene in the father-in-law's house has a conservatory leading from it which was not very convincing in the picture. Some of the story's pictures are exquisite. There was, for instance, an almost fairy quality in the scene on the balcony overlooking Monte Carlo and the Mediterranean. As full of poetry in another way is the picture of a girl's sorrow as represented by the leading lady, Laura Sawyer. She is kneeling beside her bed destroying the elder brother's letters and the camera has brought out very finely the tones and values in her face, hair, draperies, the coverlet on the bed, the curtains of the room, etc. Again in a later scene at home, as she turns to the fireplace and also when she and the older brother (Herbert Prior) now cleared by the younger brother's (Richard Ridgley) confession, are left alone. The picturesque quality in this scene is very marked. It was a hard story to make clear in pantomime; but the acting was restrained and free, and makes the picture clear and effective. - The Moving Picture World, August 12, 1911
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