["The Devil at the Long Bridge"] is an imaginative novel based on Italian historical fact….

Perhaps the individualities of the persons involved may come alive to a reader already intimate with their place in Italian history; but to some one who meets them for the first time they seem decidedly incompetent to carry out anything demanding certainty of plan, action and execution, as does a social revolution. The author's verbosity may bring about this effect, or it may be what seemed to one reader, at least, poor book planning and structure. Whatever the cause, and though it may seem ludicrous to say it of revolutionists who actually played a part in Italian history, these people rarely reach conviction.