The heroine has inherited a certain rebelliousness and dangerous caprice.
The two, meeting on the brink of ruin, fight out their battles, two weaknesses joined with love to make a strength.

It is refreshing to find a story about the rich in which all the women are not sawdust at heart, nor all the men satyrs.

The rich have their longings, their ideals, their regrets, as well as the poor; they have their struggles and inherited evils to combat.

It is a big subject, painted with a big brush and a big heart.
"After 'The House of Mirth' a New York society novel has to be very good not to suffer fearfully by comparison.

'The Fighting Chance' is very good and it does not suffer."-- _Cleveland Plain Dealer_.
"There is no more adorable person in recent fiction than Sylvia Landis."-- _New York Evening Sun_.
"Drawn with a master hand."-- _Toledo Blade_.
"An absorbing tale which claims the reader's interest to the end."-- _Detroit Free Press_.
"Mr.Chambers has written many brilliant stories, but this is his masterpiece."-- _Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph_.
* * * * * D.APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.
* * * * * A GREAT ROMANTIC NOVEL.
The Reckoning.
By ROBERT W.CHAMBERS.Illustrated by Henry Hutt.