'Although not so heralded, In a Glass Prison is a first novel and its author a West Australian, facts which, of themselves, are calculated to excite the curiosity of readers in the author's own State. But the local set ting of this story and the richness of its colour, pleasing as these are, but constitute the mere trimmings of the theme with which Mr. Masel is primarily concerned-a theme not merely of local but of universal interest...'
'Although not so heralded, In a Glass Prison is a first novel and its author a West Australian, facts which, of themselves, are calculated to excite the curiosity of readers in the author's own State. But the local set ting of this story and the richness of its colour, pleasing as these are, but constitute the mere trimmings of the theme with which Mr. Masel is primarily concerned-a theme not merely of local but of universal interest...'
