You may not be quite sure that “The Breaking Point" is the best novel of Mary Roberts Rinehart, but you will not willingly lay it down until it is finished. Its theme is fear, and what the mind does to protect itself against too much fear. Pile suffering on suffering, trouble on trouble; and at last nature will endure it no longer. The mind goes shut. It is the breaking point. Very well; take that idea, mix into it love, hate, death, privation, loneliness, all that helps to spell tragedy, and what will you get? “The Breaking Point" is Mrs. Rinehart's attempt to answer that question. Has she found the right answer? --The Epworth Herald, Volume 33
