Not quite artistic enough to justify its two reels; in fact, the first part is markedly inferior to the second, which tells a story dramatically. In it, by perfect double exposure scenes, we are shown an old musician at his piano composing, while on the other half of the screen scenes of his early life are telling us his love story, but it is surely weak. The producer had a tremendously difficult job, as the script is written, and thus using a whole reel accents the fact that there can be no suspense in a backward looking story in such a case as this. When the story has caught up and we get action and find the musician Mendelssohn as one of the characters it becomes very interesting, although the acting is not of the strongest. The parlor scene is very pretty. Marshall Farnum produced it from the script of Winifred E. Jensen. The print is not as clear cut as might be. - The Moving Picture World, January 31, 1914
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