Review by deickemeyer

The great fault of this picture is the impossibility of its situation. The chief interest in it is not what is about to happen, at any instant, but how the camera man is going to make the next event seems as though it happened. It becomes dramatically effective only after the chorine, Hermione-like, has become a statue. Perhaps this effective part might have been lengthened if the producer had followed the legend more closely, with Aratus's appeal to Venus after he fails to find the remedy that would revive his wife and with Venus's miracle as a close. Greek subjects make dangerous ground for modern artists of all kinds. - The Moving Picture World, June 24, 1911