Part 16
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Amusing snapshots of current political life.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘A clever and ingenious story of political life, told with a touch of cynicism which is redeemed by a background of romance.’
=The Standard.=--‘Will no doubt be read with amusement by those who find delight in the personal journalism of the day, and have the curiosity to fit the characters to the originals. There is enough bright writing in the book to make it a pleasant companion.’
THE WHITE TERROR
BY FÉLIX GRAS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘The fascination of _The Reds of the Midi_ and _The Terror_ is exerted with equal force and charm in their brilliant sequel, _The White Terror_. Few narratives in modern fiction are more thrilling. M. Gras has the gift of achieving the most vivid and poignant results by a method devoid of artifice or elaboration. The narrative is a masterpiece of simplicity and _naïveté_: a stirring and richly coloured recital.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘The book is full of living pictures. The feverishness, the uncertainty, of everything and everybody are most powerfully brought out.’
THE TERROR
BY FÉLIX GRAS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Those who shared Mr. Gladstone’s admiration for _The Reds of the Midi_ will renew it when they read _The Terror_. It is a stirring and vivid story, full of perilous and startling adventures, and without one interval of dulness.... It excites and absorbs the reader’s attention. The excitement grows with the development of the plot, and the incidents are told with much spirit.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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BY BREAD ALONE
BY I. K. FRIEDMAN
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘A remarkably interesting, able, and right-minded study of the labour question in the United States. The employer, the capitalist, the “hands,” the Socialist, the Anarchist, the would-be Saviour of Society,--all are fully, sympathetically, and convincingly presented. There are powerful scenes in the book; there are characters that touch.’
=The Athenæum.=--‘There are descriptions which tell. There are remarkable scenes painted, as it were, with blood and fire. Man and machinery in grim revolt are portrayed, with hand-to-hand fights and many gruesome death-scenes.’
LOVE AND HIS MASK
BY MENIE MURIEL DOWIE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=Literature.=--‘All of the many different kinds of novel readers will enjoy _Love and his Mask_.... The story is a refreshment from beginning to end. _Love and his Mask_ will be one of the most popular novels of the autumn season.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘A delightful romance.’
=Punch.=--‘A very clever novel, brightly written.’
FOREST FOLK
BY JAMES PRIOR
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=--‘We have no hesitation in welcoming _Forest Folk_ as one of the very best and most original novels of the year, and our only regret is that we have failed to proclaim the fact sooner. The characterisation is excellent, the narrative is crowded with exciting incident, and the author has, in addition to an eye for the picturesque, a quite peculiar gift for describing effects of light and colour.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Mr. Prior has a large knowledge and is a keen observer of nature; he is cunning in devising strong situations, dramatic in describing them. His are forest folk indeed, men and women of flesh and blood.’
TANGLED TRINITIES
BY DANIEL WOODROFFE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘Full of live people, whom one remembers long. The whole book is charming.’
=The Illustrated London News.=--‘Mr. Woodroffe writes with admirable clearness, picturesqueness, and restraint; he has an eye for character, and a grip of tragic possibilities. It is a moving story, and stamps the author as one of the few real artists who are now writing English fiction.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO’S NOVELS
=W. L. Courtney in the Daily Telegraph.=--_D’Annunzio is one of the great artistic energies of the age. He is the incarnation of the Latin genius just as Rudyard Kipling is the incarnation of the Anglo-Saxon genius. He has invented new harmonies of prose._
_In One Volume, price 6s. each_
THE FLAME OF LIFE
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘A work of genius, unique, astounding. There are passages that sweep one headlong, and the whole leaves an indelible impression.’
=The Standard.=--‘The pages are rich in symbolic imagery, in beautiful word-pictures of Venice, and are saturated by the spirit of the Renaissance in its most luxurious form.’
THE CHILD OF PLEASURE
=The Academy.=--’ ... Clever, subtle, to the point of genius.’
=The Daily Mail.=--‘A powerful study of passion, masterly of its kind.’
=The Daily Graphic.=--‘The poetic beauty and richness of the language make it a sensuous, glowing poem in prose.’
=The Scotsman.=--‘The strength of the book lies in the intensity with which the writer brings out the pleasures and pains of his creatures.’
THE VICTIM
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘No word but “genius” will fit his analysis of the mental history of the faithless husband.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘The book contains many descriptive passages of rare beauty--passages which by themselves are lovely little prose lyrics.... It is a self-revelation; the revelation of the sort of self that D’Annunzio delineates with a skill and knowledge so extraordinary. The soul of the man, raw, bruised, bleeding, is always before us.’
THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘A masterpiece. The story holds and haunts one. Unequalled even by the great French contemporary whom, in his realism, D’Annunzio most resembles, is the account of the pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin by the sick, deformed, and afflicted. It is a great prose poem, that, of its kind, cannot be surpassed. Every detail of the scene is brought before us in a series of word-pictures of wonderful power and vivid colouring, and the ever-recurring refrain _Viva Maria! Maria Evviva!_ rings in our ears as we lay down the book. It is the work of a master, whose genius is beyond dispute.’
THE VIRGINS OF THE ROCKS
=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘He writes beautifully, and this book, by the way, is most admirably translated. The picture he presents of these three princesses in their sun-baked, mouldering, sleepy palace is, as we look back upon it, strangely impressive and even haunting.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.