Is it love, honor, fame, money—what are people after, anyway? That was the question Anson Grayl asked of New York when he came to that "City of the Successfully Single," an unworldly and enquiring young man. He wanted to write a book — The Great Desire — in which he would answer that question. And instead, Life picked him up and made him live the book he would have written and answered tbe great Question in terms of his own experience. Here is New York, the City of To-day: a group of real and interesting people.
–The American Review of Reviews, Vol. 60 [1920]