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TRUTH.—"Mr. Maarten Maartens' latest and, perhaps, finest novel."
SCOTSMAN.—"The book is one of singular power and interest, original and unique."
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LEEDS MERCURY.—"Her Memory is a book which only a man of genius could write, and as a study of character it is fascinating.... The prevailing impression left by Her Memory is that of beauty and strength. Unlike the majority of contemporary novels, the story before us is one which arrests thought, as well as touches some of the deepest problems of life."
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THE ADVENTURES OF
FRANCOIS
Foundling, Thief, Juggler, and Fencing Master during
the French Revolution
By S. WEIR MITCHELL, M.D.
AUTHOR OF "HUGH WYNNE," ETC.
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"It is delightfully entertaining throughout, and throws much instructive light upon certain subordinate phases of the great popular upheaval that convulsed France between 1788 and 1794.... Recounted with unflagging vivacity and inexhaustible good humour."
DAILY MAIL.—"This lively piece of imagination is animated throughout by strong human interest and novel incident."
LITERATURE.—"It is a charming book, this historical romance of Dr. Weir Mitchell's; in narrative power, in dramatic effect, in vivid movement, and in mordant and singularly effective style.... No novelist of whom we know, not even Felix Gras, has so vividly brought before us the life of lower Paris in the awful days of the Terror. A dozen or so admirable reproductions of the drawings specially made by A. Castaigne for 'Fran�ois,' during its serial appearance, add attraction to a romance as notable as it is delightful."
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.—"The author meets with a master's ease every call that is made upon his resources, and the calls are neither few nor light. The design, bold though it is, lies so well within his compass as to suggest a reserve of strength rather than limitations. And a style that is versatile but always distinguished, delicate but always virile, terse but never obscure, is in a strong hand an instrument for strong work. The pictures by A. Castaigne are worthy of the text."
GLASGOW HERALD.—"Dr. Weir Mitchell's story deserves nothing but praise."
SHEFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"There is plenty of movement, and the interest culminates but never flags. It is quite the best picaresque novel we have come across for a long time past.... The story could hardly be bettered."
GLASGOW DAILY MAIL.—"It is altogether a most entertaining narrative, witty and humorous in its dialogue, exciting in its incidents, and not without its pathetic side."
DAILY CHRONICLE.—"Dr. Weir Mitchell is certainly to be congratulated on the whole volume."
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ELIZABETH AND HER
GERMAN GARDEN
LITERATURE.—"A charming book.... If the delightful wilderness which eventually develops into a garden occupies the foreground, there is still room for much else—for children, husbands, guests, gardeners, and governesses, all of which are treated in a very entertaining manner."
TIMES.—"A very bright little book—genial, humorous, perhaps a little fantastic and wayward here and there, but full of bright glimpses of nature and sprightly criticisms of life. Elizabeth is the English wife of a German husband, who finds and makes for herself a delightful retreat from the banalities of life in a German provincial town by occupying and beautifying a deserted convent."
SCOTSMAN.—"The garden in question is somewhere in Germany.... Its owner found it a wilderness, has made it a paradise, and tells the reader how. The book is charmingly written.... The people that appear in it are almost as interesting as the flowers.... Altogether it is a delightful book, of a quiet but strong interest, which no one who loves plants and flowers ought to miss reading."
ACADEMY.—"'I love my garden'—that is the first sentence, and reading on, we find ourselves in the presence of a whimsical, humorous, cultured, and very womanly woman, with a pleasant, old-fashioned liking for homeliness and simplicity; with a wise husband, three merry babes, aged five, four, and three, a few friends, a gardener, an old German house to repose in, a garden to be happy in, an agreeable literary gift, and a slight touch of cynicism. Such is Elizabeth. The book is a quiet record of her life in her old world retreat, her adventures among bulbs and seeds, the sayings of her babies, and the discomfiture and rout of a New Woman visitor.... It is a charming book, and we should like to dally with it."
GLASGOW HERALD.—"This book has to do with more than a German garden, for the imaginary diary which it contains is really a description, and a very charming and picturesque one, of life in a north German country house."
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.—"No mere extracts could do justice to this entirely delightful garden book."
ATHEN�UM.—"We hope that Elizabeth will write more rambling and delightful books."
SPEAKER.—"Entirely delightful."
OUTLOOK.—"The book is refreshingly good. It has a good deal of stuff in it, and a great deal of affable and witty writing; and it will bear reading more than once, which, in these days, is saying much."
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THE LOVES
OF THE
LADY ARABELLA
By M. E. SEAWELL
SPEAKER.—"A story told with so much spirit that the reader tingles with suspense until the end is reached.... A very pleasant tale of more than common merit."
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"It is short and excellent reading.... Old Peter Hawkshaw, the Admiral, is a valuable creation, sometimes quite 'My Uncle Toby'.... The scene, when the narrator dines with him in the cabin for the first time, is one of the most humorous in the language, and stamps Lady Hawkshaw—albeit, she is not there—as one of the wives of fiction in the category of Mrs. Proudie herself.... The interest is thoroughly sustained to the end.... Thoroughly healthy and amusing."
WORLD.—"Brisk and amusing throughout."
SATURDAY REVIEW.—"A spirited romance.... It is the brightest tale of the kind that we have read for a long time."
DAILY MAIL.—"A robust and engaging eighteenth century romance."
SCOTSMAN.—"The story possesses all the elements of a good-going love romance, in which the wooing is not confined to the sterner sex; while its flavour of the sea will secure it favour in novel-reading quarters where anything approaching sentimentality or sermonizing does not meet with much appreciation."
MORNING POST.—"There is a spirit and evident enjoyment in the telling of the story which is refreshing."
ACADEMY.—"A brisk story of old naval days."
SPECTATOR.—"Pleasant reading is furnished in The Loves of the Lady Arabella."
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A
ROMANCE OF CANVAS TOWN
AND OTHER STORIES
By ROLF BOLDREWOOD
CONTENTS
A Romance of Canvas Town
The Fencing of Wandaroona: A Riverina Reminiscence
The Governess of the Poets
Our New Cook: A Tale of the Times
Angels Unawares
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"Eminently readable, being written in the breezy, happy-go-lucky style which characterizes the more recent fictional works of the author of that singularly earnest and impressive romance, Robbery under Arms."
DAILY MAIL.—"As pleasant as ever."
GLASGOW HERALD.—"They will repay perusal."
SCOTSMAN.—"A volume of five short stories by Mr. Rolf Boldrewood is heartily welcome.... All are about Australia, and all are excellent.... His shorter stories will enhance his popularity."
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THAT LITTLE CUTTY
DR. BARR�RE, ISABEL DYSART
By MRS. OLIPHANT
AUTHOR OF "THE CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD," ETC., ETC.
SATURDAY REVIEW.—"It has all her tenderness and homely humour, and in the case of all three stories there is a good idea well worked out."
LITERATURE.—"To come across a work of Mrs. Oliphant's is to come across a pleasant, little green oasis in the arid desert of minor novels.... In these the author's refinement, tenderness, and charm of manner are as well exemplified as in any of her earlier works.... The book is one that we can most cordially recommend."
DAILY NEWS.—"Each story that comes to us from the hand of Mrs. Oliphant moves us to admiration for its delicate craftsmanship, the keen appreciation it displays of the resources of situation and character. The posthumous volume, 'That Little Cutty, and other Stories,' is an excellent example of Mrs. Oliphant's power of telling a story swiftly and with dramatic insight. Every touch tells.... The little volume is worthy of its author's high and well-deserved reputation."
DAILY CHRONICLE.—"All three are admirably written in that easy, simple narrative style to which the author had so thoroughly accustomed us. It will be for many of Mrs. Oliphant's friends a wholly unexpected pleasure to have a new volume of fiction with her name on the title-page."
PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"They are models of what such stories should be."
SHEFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"Excellent examples of Mrs. Oliphant's work."
SCOTSMAN.—"All three stories have a fine literary flavour and an artistic finish, and within their limited scope present some subtle analyses of character."
NORTHERN WHIG.—"Anything from the pen of the late Mrs. Oliphant will always be welcome to a large number of readers, who will therefore note with pleasant interest the publication by Messrs. Macmillan of a neat volume containing three tales, 'That Little Cutty,' 'Dr. Barr�re,' and 'Isabel Dysart.' Of the three, although all are most readable, the most skilfully constructed is the second named, the plot and climax of which are decidedly dramatic. The last story deals with the still unforgotten period of the horrible Burke and Hare revelations in Edinburgh."
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THE FOREST LOVERS
A ROMANCE
By MAURICE HEWLETT
SPECTATOR.—"The Forest Lovers is no mere literary tour de force, but an uncommonly attractive romance, the charm of which is greatly enhanced by the author's excellent style."
DAILY TELEGRAPH.—"Mr. Maurice Hewlett's Forest Lovers stands out with conspicuous success.... He has compassed a very remarkable achievement.... For nearly four hundred pages he carries us along with him with unfailing resource and artistic skill, while he unrolls for us the course of thrilling adventures, ending, after many tribulations, in that ideal happiness towards which every romancer ought to wend his tortuous way.... There are few books of this season which achieve their aim so simply and whole-heartedly as Mr. Hewlett's ingenious and enthralling romance."
WORLD.—"If there are any romance-lovers left in this matter-of-fact end of the century, The Forest Lovers, by Mr. Maurice Hewlett, should receive a cordial welcome. It is one of those charming books which, instead of analyzing the morbid emotions of which we are all too weary, opens a door out of this workaday world and lets us escape into fresh air. A very fresh and breezy air it is which blows in Mr. Hewlett's forest, and vigorous are the deeds enacted there.... There is throughout the book that deeper and less easily defined charm which lifts true romance above mere story-telling—a genuine touch of poetic feeling which beautifies the whole."
DAILY MAIL.—"It is all very quaintly and pleasingly done, with plenty of mad work, and blood-spilling, and surprising adventure."
James Lane Allen, Author of The Choir Invisible, writes of The Forest Lovers: "This work, for any one of several solid reasons, must be regarded as of very unusual interest. In the matter of style alone, it is an achievement, an extraordinary achievement. Such a piece of English prose, saturated and racy with idiom, compact and warm throughout as living human tissues, well deserves to be set apart for grateful study and express appreciation.... In the matter of interpreting nature there are passages in this book that I have never seen surpassed in prose fiction."
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THE
GOSPEL OF FREEDOM
By ROBERT HERRICK
AUTHOR OF "THE MAN WHO WINS," "LITERARY LOVE LETTERS, AND OTHER STORIES"
DAILY MAIL.—"Distinctly enjoyable and suggestive of much profitable thought."
SCOTSMAN.—"The book has a deal of literary merit, and is well furnished with clever phrases."
ATHEN�UM.—"Remarkably clever.... The writing throughout is clear, and the story is well constructed."
W. D. Howells in LITERATURE.—"A very clever new novel."
GUARDIAN.—"The novel is well written, and full of complex interests and personalities. It touches on many questions and problems clearly and skilfully."
DAILY CHRONICLE.—"A book which entirely interested us for the whole of a blazing afternoon. He writes uncommonly well."
BOOKMAN.—"The excellence of Mr. Herrick's book lies not in the solution of any problem, nor in the promulgation of any theory, nor indeed in any form of docketing and setting apart of would-be final answers to the enigmas of existence. He simply tells a story and leaves us to draw what conclusion we like. The admirable thing is that his story is a particularly interesting one, and that he tells it remarkably well.... There are some delightful minor characters."
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.—"The characters, all American, have originality and life. The self-engrossed Adela is so
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