Part 13
=The Daily Mail.=--‘He has written a vivid story, characterised by that keen eye for dramatic situations which has given him fame. There is little doubt that its popularity will rival that of its predecessors.’
=The Liverpool Courier.=--‘_The Eternal City_, daring in its conception, and still more audacious in its execution, dealing not with a century ago or a decade back, but with to-day, referring to positions (if not to persons) that stand out prominent in the world’s life, the present moment is the flood which must carry it to success.... Of its intrinsic worth there can be no doubt. It is the best that Mr. Caine has yet produced.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘It may be asserted with confidence that no living author than Mr. Caine could have produced this work. It may be doubted whether any author who has lived for many generations past could have produced it. The novel stands out as a purely exceptional work.... The verdict must be that it is masterly in its conception and in its treatment.... Mr. Caine has produced a really fine work, a work that will carry on his reputation to a higher point than it has yet attained.’
THE CHRISTIAN
BY HALL CAINE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Sketch.=--‘It quivers and palpitates with passion, for even Mr. Caine’s bitterest detractors cannot deny that he is the possessor of that rarest of all gifts, genius.’
=The Standard.=--‘The book has humour, it has pathos, it is full of colour and movement. It abounds in passages of terse, bold, animated descriptions.... There is, above all, the fascination of a skilful narrative.’
=The Speaker.=--‘It is a notable book, written in the heart’s blood of the author, and palpitating with the passionate enthusiasm that has inspired it. A book that is good to read, and that cannot fail to produce an impression on its readers.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘The tale will enthral the reader by its natural power and beauty. The spell it casts is instantaneous, but it also gathers strength from chapter to chapter, until we are swept irresistibly along by the impetuous current of passion and action.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE MANXMAN
BY HALL CAINE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘With the exception of _The Scapegoat_, this is unquestionably the finest and most dramatic of Mr. Hall Caine’s novels.... _The Manxman_ goes very straight to the roots of human passion and emotion. It is a remarkable book, throbbing with human interest.’
=The Queen.=--‘_The Manxman_ is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable books of the century. It will be read and re-read, and take its place in the literary inheritance of the English-speaking nations.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘_The Manxman_ is a contribution to literature, and the most fastidious critic would give in exchange for it a wilderness of that deciduous trash which our publishers call fiction.... It is not possible to part from _The Manxman_ with anything but a warm tribute of approval.’--EDMUND GOSSE.
THE BONDMAN
BY HALL CAINE
With a Photogravure Portrait of the Author.
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=Mr. Gladstone.=--‘_The Bondman_ is a work of which I recognise the freshness, vigour, and sustained interest, no less than its integrity of aim.’
=The Times.=--‘It is impossible to deny originality and rude power to this saga, impossible not to admire its forceful directness, and the colossal grandeur of its leading characters.’
=The Academy.=--‘The language of _The Bondman_ is full of nervous, graphic, and poetical English; its interest never flags, and its situations and descriptions are magnificent. It is a splendid novel.’
=The Speaker.=--‘This is the best book that Mr. Hall Caine has yet written, and it reaches a level to which fiction very rarely attains.... We are, in fact, so loth to let such good work be degraded by the title of “novel” that we are almost tempted to consider its claim to rank as a prose epic.’
THE SCAPEGOAT
BY HALL CAINE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘In our judgment it excels in dramatic force all the Author’s previous efforts. For grace and touching pathos Naomi is a character which any romancist in the world might be proud to have created, and the tale of her parents’ despair and hopes, and of her own development, confers upon _The Scapegoat_ a distinction which is matchless of its kind.’
=The Guardian.=--‘Mr. Hall Caine is undoubtedly master of a style which is peculiarly his own. He is in a way a Rembrandt among novelists.’
=The Athenæum.=--‘It is a delightful story to read.’
=The Academy.=--‘Israel ben Oliel is the third of a series of the most profoundly conceived characters in modern fiction.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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SCARLET AND HYSSOP
BY E. F. BENSON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Standard.=--‘It is astonishingly up-to-date: it brims over with chatter, with Saturday to Monday parties, with bridge, flirtation, motor-cars, semi-detached husbands and wives, and the Boer war,--in fact with everything in which London society of to-day interests itself. An admirable picture, witty, cynical, and amusing. It is full of brilliant things.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Scathing in satire and relentless in exposure. The interest never flags for a moment. There are many pages of witty dialogue. _Scarlet and Hyssop_ must be accounted a really brilliant piece of work, unsurpassed by anything Mr. Benson has given us.’
THE LUCK OF THE VAILS
BY E. F. BENSON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘One might begin to read _The Luck of the Vails_ lying back in a comfortable chair, and chuckling over the natural talk of Mr. Benson’s pleasant people. But after an hour or so, assuming that it is a hot day, and that you turn the leaves without great energy, you find yourself sitting up and gripping the arms of the chair, and glancing uneasily over your shoulder at the sound of a step upon the gravel. For this is a really thrilling and exciting tale of crime and mystery that Mr. Benson has written. It is readable all through and full of entertainment.’
THE PRINCESS SOPHIA
BY E. F. BENSON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘There is brilliance, lightness of touch. The dialogue is neat and brisk, and the miniature Court and its courtiers are amusingly treated.’
=Literature.=--‘Told with verve and wit. If the novel is to amuse we cannot recommend a more agreeable companion than Mr. Benson’s brilliant friend _The Princess Sophia_.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘A gay and spirited performance, and the Princess herself a clever picture. It is lively reading, and the characters bubble along in true Bensonian fashion.’
MAMMON & CO.
BY E. F. BENSON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Bright, piquant, and entertaining from beginning to end, full of humorous sayings and witty things spoken by men and women who are merry and captivating. There is little to find fault with. It is a very clever, smart novel, wherein lies a little lesson and much entertainment.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Mr. Benson’s new story is in his happier and clever style. Happily, also, the liveliness does not tire. The _repartee_ and rattle of the “smart set” are the genuine thing, and his own pretty conceits and happy little audacities of turn are not too forced.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE WINDS OF THE WORLD
BY THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘They are extremely varied in conception, and show much dramatic skill.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘A series of stories which are excellent. They are fresh and original in conception, and full of dramatic incidents; and they arc still more remarkable for their freshness as studies of character.’
THE MYSTERY OF THE SEA
BY BRAM STOKER
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘A good rattling story of buried treasure from the Great Armada; of second-sight and ancient Pagan mysteries; of sea caves and storms; of haughty Spaniards; of subterranean passages and ruined chapels.’
=Punch.=--‘A rattling story which sometimes recalls _Monte Cristo_, anon _Treasure Island_. The wild scenery by day and night Mr. Stoker describes with loving touch and master hand. There is in the book the rare quality of adventure that enthralls the boys and pleases their parents.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘There is a spaciousness about Mr. Stoker’s work which not infrequently reminds us of the great masters. To any one who loves an enthralling tale, told with unflagging zest and good spirits, we recommend _The Mystery of the Sea_.’
THE SHEEPSTEALERS
BY VIOLET JACOB
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘The emergence of a book so fresh, so original, and so wholesome, is peculiarly welcome. We can cordially recommend Miss Jacob’s powerful and engrossing romance. It deserves to rank along with _The House with the Green Shutters_ in the limited category of those tales of the countryside in which there is nothing provincial or parochial. Few novelists of recent years have set themselves so high a standard in their initial effort as Miss Jacob, whose work is singularly free from the faults of a novice. Her style is excellent--lucid, natural, unaffected; her energy is under control; she understands the art of self-effacement, of omission, of reticence, and she is as successful in dealing with her gentle as with her simple characters.’
IF I WERE KING
BY JUSTIN HUNTLY M‘CARTHY
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘A novel of exceptional distinction; the scenes are fresh and vivid; the movement quick and natural; and, above all, the phrasing has almost a classical richness and carefulness of verbal selection. It is seldom that the style of a romantic novel brings it so near to literature.’
=The Spectator.=--‘Mr. M‘Carthy has made a tale out of his play, and it is a good tale. There is some excellent verse scattered up and down the book. He has experimented boldly and has succeeded.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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FOLLY CORNER
BY MRS. HENRY DUDENEY
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Mrs. Henry Dudeney is to be much congratulated. _Folly Corner_ is quite a delightful novel--a well-conceived story admirably told. Side by side with a notable story, the authoress places little pictures of Nature, of farm-life and country sights and sounds. Her descriptions of the life at _Folly Corner_ afford a keen and unusual pleasure. We come to the last page with a strong wish for more, and a lively and unsatisfied interest in the chief characters concerned.’
THE MATERNITY OF HARRIOTT WICKEN
BY MRS. HENRY DUDENEY
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=Literature.=--‘A notable book. Mrs. Dudeney has the power of translating a feeling, an impression into a few vivid words, which faithfully transmit her experience to the mind of the reader, and this is a great art.’
=The Daily Mail.=--‘The story is as singular as its title, and as strong as straightforward.... The drama haunts and grips us. There is humour in it, too, excellent humour. _The Maternity of Harriott Wicken_ is a story that has elemental human nature in every chapter, and, therefore, sinks deep in the mind.’
SPINDLE AND PLOUGH
BY MRS. HENRY DUDENEY
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Mrs. Dudeney has a power, as precious as it is rare, of conveying a whole scene in a few well-chosen words. Her observation is acute, her word-painting well-nigh exquisite.’
=The Spectator.=--‘Mrs. Dudeney possesses the inestimable art of grasping and holding the attention of her readers.’
THE COURTESY DAME
BY R. MURRAY GILCHRIST
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=Literature.=--‘It possesses all the sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral, but through it a thousand lights and shades of human passion are seen to play. The story will immediately grip the reader and hold him until he reaches the last chapter.’
=The Morning Post.=--‘Mr. Murray Gilchrist is an artist to the point of his pen, whose story is at once among the freshest and sweetest of recent essays in imaginative writing.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE HOSTS OF THE LORD
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Mrs. Steel’s latest wonderful romance of Indian life. It is ‘57 in little, and in our own day. Mrs. Steel has again subtly and keenly shown us how unique is her power of realising the unstably poised, the troubled half-and-half mind that is the key to the Indian problem.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘No one, not even the Kipling of an earlier day, quite does for India what Mrs. Steel does; she sees Indian life steadily, and sees it whole with a vision that is truthful, sympathetic. Such is the wealth of her observation that her page is rich with colour as an Eastern bazaar, and fragrant as a basket of quinces.’
VOICES IN THE NIGHT
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘It is the native mind which Mrs. Steel shows us as no other writer has done. She sketches in the native scenes with intimate detail, with ease in obtaining her effects.’
=Black and White.=--‘Mrs. Steel works on a crowded canvas, yet every figure stands out distinctly. _Voices in the Night_ is a book to be read carefully. It is a book to be kept and to be read more than once. It is a novel of the best kind, and deserves the attention of the readers who find nothing praiseworthy in the effusions of the popular successes.’
ON THE FACE OF THE WATERS
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘We have read Mrs. Steel’s book with ever-increasing surprise and admiration--surprise at her insight into people with whom she can scarcely have been intimate, admiration for the genius which has enabled her to realise that wonderful welter of the East and West, which Delhi must have presented just before the Mutiny. There is many an officer who would give his sword to write military history as Mrs. Steel has written the history of the rising, the siege, and the storm. It is the most wonderful picture. We know that none who lived through the Mutiny will lay the book down without a gasp of admiration, and believe that the same emotion will be felt by thousands to whom the scenes depicted are but lurid phantasmagoria.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘A picture, glowing with colour, of the most momentous and dramatic events in all our Empire’s later history. We have read many stories having for their setting the lurid background of the Indian Mutiny, but none that for fidelity to fact, for vivacity of imagination, for masterly breadth of treatment, comes within half a dozen places of this.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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IN THE PERMANENT WAY
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘While her only rival in this field of fiction is Mr. Kipling, her work is marked by an even subtler appreciation of the Oriental standpoint--both ethical and religious--a more exhaustive acquaintance with native life in its domestic and indoor aspects, and a deeper sense of the moral responsibilities attaching to our rule in the East. The book is profoundly interesting from beginning to end.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘A volume of charming stories and of stories possessing something more than mere charm. Stories made rich with beauty and colour, strong with the strength of truth, and pathetic with the intimate pathos which grows only from the heart. All the mystery and the frankness, the simplicity and the complexity of Indian life are here in a glowing setting of brilliant Oriental hues. A book to read and a book to buy. A book which no one but Mrs. Steel could have given us, a book which all persons of leisure should read, and for which all persons of taste will be grateful.’
FROM THE FIVE RIVERS
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=--‘Mrs. Steel has evidently been brought into close contact with the domestic life of all classes, Hindu and Mahommedan, in city and village, and has steeped herself in their customs and superstitions.... Mrs. Steel’s book is of exceptional merit and freshness.’
=The Athenæum.=--‘They possess this great merit, that they reflect the habits, modes of life, and ideas of the middle and lower classes of the population of Northern India better than do systematic and more pretentious works.’
=The Globe.=--‘She puts before us the natives of our Empire in the East as they live and move and speak, with their pitiful superstitions, their strange fancies, their melancholy ignorance of what poses with us for knowledge and civilisation, their doubt of the new ways, the new laws, the new people, “Shah Sujah’s Mouse,” the gem of the collection--a touching tale of unreasoning fidelity towards an English “Sinny Baba” is a tiny bit of perfect writing.’
THE POTTER’S THUMB
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Globe.=--‘This is a brilliant story--a story that fascinates, tingling with life, steeped in sympathy with all that is best and saddest.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=--‘The impression left upon one after reading _The Potter’s Thumb_ is that a new literary artist, of very great and unusual gifts, has arisen.... In short, Mrs. Steel must be congratulated upon having achieved a very genuine and amply deserved success.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘It is a capital story, full of variety and movement, which brings with great vividness before the reader one of the phases of Anglo-Indian life. Mrs. Steel writes forcibly and sympathetically, and much of the charm of the picture which she draws lies in the force with which she brings out the contrast between the Asiatic and European world. _The Potter’s Thumb_ is very good reading, with its mingling of the tragedy and comedy of life. Its evil woman _par excellence_ ... is a finished study.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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RED ROWANS
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘Judge it by what canons of criticism you will the book is a work of art.... The story is simple enough, but it is as lifelike as anything in modern fiction. The people speak and act as people do act and speak. There is not a false note throughout. Mrs. Steel draws children as none but a master-hand can draw.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘Far and away above the average of novels, and one of those books which no reader should miss.’
=The Daily News.=--‘The book is written with distinction. It is moving, picturesque, the character drawing is sensitive and strong.’
=Black and White.=--‘It reveals keen sympathy with nature and clever portraiture, and it possesses many passages both humorous and pathetic.’
THE FLOWER OF FORGIVENESS
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Academy.=--‘Nothing here ought to be neglected, for there is in most places something profitable for not too obtrusive exhortation, and almost everywhere something for enjoyment.’
=The Glasgow Herald.=--‘A clever book which should tend to widen Mrs. Steel’s circle among the reading public.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘They have a rich imaginative colour always.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=--‘Much sympathy with humanity however dark the skin, and a delicate touch in narrative, raise Mrs. F. A. Steel’s Indian Stories into a high rank. There is a pathos in them not common among Anglo-Indian story-tellers.’
MISS STUART’S LEGACY
BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Saturday Review.=--‘It throbs with the vigour of real creative power.’
=The Spectator.=--‘It is remarkably clever; it is written in a style which has ease, dignity, grace, and quick responsiveness to the demands of the theme; it has passages of arresting power and fine reticent pathos; and it displays a quick eye for character and a power of depicting it with both force and subtlety.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘A most faithful, vivid impression of Indian life.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘A singularly powerful and fascinating story.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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BOWERY TALES
(George’s Mother, and Maggie.)
BY STEPHEN CRANE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Morning Post.=--‘Mr. Crane never wrote anything more vivid than the story in which Maggie takes the heroine’s part. It is as admirable in its own field as _The Red Badge of Courage_ in another.’
=The Illustrated London News.=--‘Stephen Crane knew the Bowery very well, and in these two stories its characteristics come out with the realism of Mr. Arthur Morrison’s studies of the East End. Both are grim and powerful sketches.’
PICTURES OF WAR
(The Red Badge of Courage, and The Little Regiment.)
BY STEPHEN CRANE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=Truth.=--‘The pictures themselves are certainly wonderful.... So fine a book as Mr. Stephen Crane’s _Pictures of War_ is not to be judged pedantically.’
=The Daily Graphic.=--’ ... A second reading leaves one with no whit diminished opinion of their extraordinary power. Stories they are not really, but as vivid war pictures they have scarcely been equalled.... One cannot recall any book which conveys to the outsider more clearly what war means to the fighters than this collection of brilliant pictures.’
THE OPEN BOAT
BY STEPHEN CRANE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Saturday Review.=--’ ... The most artistic thing Mr. Crane has yet accomplished.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘Each tale is the concise, clear, vivid record of one sensational impression. Facts, epithets, or colours are given to the reader with a rigorousness of selection, an artfulness of restraint, that achieves an absolute clearness in the resulting imaginative vision. Mr. Crane has a personal touch of artistry that is refreshing.’
ACTIVE SERVICE
BY STEPHEN CRANE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘The characters are admirably sketched and sustained. There is tenderness; there is brilliancy; there is real insight into the minds and ways of women and of men.’
=The Spectator.=--‘Mr. Crane’s plot is ingenious and entertaining, and the characterisation full of those unexpected strokes in which he excels.’
=The Academy.=--‘The book is full of those feats of description for which the author is famous. Mr. Crane can handle the epithet with surprising, almost miraculous dexterity. _Active Service_ quite deserves to be called a remarkable book.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE THIRD VIOLET
BY STEPHEN CRANE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=--‘We have never come across a book that brought certain sections of American society so perfectly before the reader as does _The Third Violet_, which introduces us to a farming family, to the boarders at a summer hotel, and to the young artists of New York. The picture is an extremely pleasant one, and its truth appeals to the English reader, so that the effect of the book is to draw him nearer to his American cousins. _The Third Violet_ incidentally contains the best dog we have come across in modern fiction. Mr. Crane’s dialogue is excellent, and it is dialogue of a type for which neither _The Red Badge of Courage_ nor his later books had prepared us.’
AFRICAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENT
BY A. J. DAWSON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘His stories have the special attraction of stories of a country by a man who has knowledge of it and is under its fascination; and are good stories into the bargain. He has a pretty humour, and the gift of telling a story well, and special knowledge to work upon; the result is an entertaining book.’