Thursday. Dr. Frost and Mr. Carden (and it's not so often _he_ wasted
his time going to a funeral!) and Featherstone and the Squire amongst
them. Poor Sir John sobbed over the grave, and did not mind who saw and
heard him, while they cast the earth on the coffin.
"_Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope
of the Resurrection to eternal life._"
That the solemn promise was applicable to John Whitney, and that he had
most assuredly entered on that glorious life, I knew as well then as
I know now. The corruptible had put on incorruption, the mortal
immortality.
* * * * *
Not much of a story, you will say. But I might have told a worse. And I
hope, seeing we must all go out at the same gate, that we shall be as
ready for it as he was.
JOHNNY LUDLOW.
THE END.
LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
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THE NEW ISSUE OF
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1.
EAST LYNNE.
_FOUR HUNDREDTH THOUSAND._
"'East Lynne' is so full of incident, so exciting in every page, and
so admirably written, that one hardly knows how to go to bed without
reading to the very last page."--THE OBSERVER.
"A work of remarkable power which displays a force of description and a
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narrative intensifies itself to the deepest pathos. The closing scene is
in the highest degree tragic, and the whole management of the story
exhibits unquestionable genius and originality."--THE DAILY NEWS.
"'East Lynne' has been translated into the Hindustani and Parsee
languages, and the success of it has been very great."--DANIEL
BANDMANN'S JOURNAL.
2.
THE CHANNINGS.
_ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH THOUSAND._
"'The Channings' will probably be read over and over again, and it can
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3.
MRS. HALLIBURTON'S TROUBLES.
_ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH THOUSAND._
"The boldness, originality, and social scrutiny displayed in this work
remind the reader of Adam Bede. It would be difficult to place beside
the death of Edgar Halliburton anything in fiction comparable with its
profound pathos and simplicity. It is long since the novel-reading world
has had reason so thoroughly to congratulate itself upon the appearance
of a new work as in the instance of 'Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles.' It is
a fine work; a great and artistic picture."--THE MORNING POST.
4.
THE SHADOW OF ASHLYDYAT.
_SEVENTY-SEVENTH THOUSAND._
"'The Shadow of Ashlydyat' is very clever, and keeps up the constant
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the romantic touch to the story which Sir Walter Scott so often used
with even greater effect; but it is not explained away at the end as Sir
Walter Scott's supernatural touches generally, and inartistically,
were."--THE SPECTATOR.
"The genius of Mrs. Henry Wood shines as brightly as ever. There is a
scene or two between Maria Godolphin and her little girl just before she
dies, which absolutely melt the heart. The death-bed scene likewise is
exquisitely pathetic."--THE COURT JOURNAL.
5.
LORD OAKBURN'S DAUGHTERS.
_SEVENTY-SEVENTH THOUSAND._
"The story is admirably told."--THE SPECTATOR.
6.
VERNER'S PRIDE.
_SIXTY-FIFTH THOUSAND._
"'Verner's Pride' is a first-rate novel in its breadth of outline and
brilliancy of description. Its exciting events, its spirited scenes, and
its vivid details, all contribute to its triumph. The interest this work
awakens, and the admiration it excites in the minds of its readers, must
infallibly tend to the renown of the writer, while they herald the
welcome reception of the work wherever skill in construction of no
ordinary kind, or a ready appreciation of character, which few possess,
can arouse attention or win regard."--THE SUN.
7.
ROLAND YORKE.
_ONE HUNDREDTH THOUSAND._
"In all respects worthy of the hand that wrote 'The Channings' and 'East
Lynne.' There is no lack of excitement to wile the reader on, and from
the first to the last a well-planned story is sustained with admirable
spirit and in a masterly style."--THE DAILY NEWS.
8.
JOHNNY LUDLOW.
+The First Series.+
_FIFTIETH THOUSAND._
"We regard these stories as almost perfect of their kind."--SPECTATOR.
"Fresh, lively, vigorous, and full of clever dialogue, they will meet
with a ready welcome. The Author is masterly in the skill with which she
manages her successive dramas."--STANDARD.
"It is an agreeable change to come upon a book like Johnny
Ludlow."--SATURDAY REVIEW.
"Vigour of description and a strong grasp of character."--ATHENÆUM.
"The Author has given proof of a rarer dramatic instinct than we had
suspected among our living writers of fiction."--NONCOMFORMIST.
"Tales full of interest."--VANITY FAIR.
"Fresh, clear, simple, strong in purpose and in execution, these stories
have won admiration as true works of inventive art. Without a single
exception they maintain a powerful hold on the mind of the reader, and
keep his sympathies in a continued state of healthy excitement."--DAILY
TELEGRAPH.
9.
MILDRED ARKELL.
_FIFTIETH THOUSAND._
"Mrs. Henry Wood certainly possesses in a wholly exceptional degree the
power of uniting the most startling incident of supernatural influence
with a certain probability and naturalness which compels the most
critical and sceptical reader, having once begun, to go on reading....
He finds himself conciliated by some bit of quiet picture, some accent
of poetic tenderness, some sweet domestic touch telling of a heart
exercised in the rarer experiences; and as he proceeds he wonders more
and more at the manner in which the mystery, the criminality, the
plotting, and the murdering reconciles itself with a quiet sense of the
justice of things; and a great moral lesson is, after all, found to lie
in the heart of all the turmoil and exciting scene-shifting. It is this
which has earned for Mrs. Wood so high a place among popular novelists,
and secured her admittance to homes from which the sensational novelists
so-called are excluded."--THE NONCOMFORMIST.
10.
SAINT MARTIN'S EVE.
_FORTY-FIFTH THOUSAND._
"A good novel."--THE SPECTATOR.
"Mrs. Wood has spared no pains to accumulate the materials for a
curiously thrilling story."--THE SATURDAY REVIEW.
11.
TREVLYN HOLD.
_FORTIETH THOUSAND._
"We cannot read a page of this work without discovering a graphic force
of delineation which it would not be easy to surpass."--THE DAILY NEWS.
12.
GEORGE CANTERBURY'S WILL.
_FIFTIETH THOUSAND._
"The name of Mrs. Henry Wood has been familiar to novel-readers for many
years, and her fame widens and strengthens with the increase in the
number of her books."--THE MORNING POST.
13.
THE RED COURT FARM.
_FORTY-FOURTH THOUSAND._
"When we say that a plot displays Mrs. Wood's well-known skill in
construction, our readers will quite understand that their attention
will be enchained by it from the first page to the last."--THE WEEKLY
DISPATCH.
14.
WITHIN THE MAZE.
_SIXTY-FIFTH THOUSAND._
"The decided novelty and ingenuity of the plot of 'Within the Maze'
renders it, in our eyes, one of Mrs. Henry Wood's best novels.
It is excellently developed, and the interest hardly flags for a
moment."--THE GRAPHIC.
15.
ELSTER'S FOLLY.
_THIRTY-FIFTH THOUSAND._
"Mrs. Wood fulfils all the requisites of a good novelist: she interests
people in her books, makes them anxious about the characters, and
furnishes an intricate and carefully woven plot."--THE MORNING POST.
16.
LADY ADELAIDE.
_THIRTY-FIFTH THOUSAND._
"One of Mrs. Henry Wood's best novels."--THE STAR.
"Mme. Henry Wood est fort célèbre en Angleterre, et ses romans--très
moraux et très bien écrits--sont dans toutes les mains et revivent dans
toutes les mémoires. _Le serment de lady Adelaïde_ donneront à nos
lecteurs une idée très suffisante du talent si élevé de mistress Henry
Wood."--L'INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE.
17.
OSWALD CRAY.
_THIRTY-SEVENTH THOUSAND._
"Mrs. Wood has certainly an art of novel-writing which no rival
possesses in the same degree and kind. It is not, we fancy, a common
experience for any one to leave one of these novels unfinished."--THE
SPECTATOR.
18.
JOHNNY LUDLOW.
+The Second Series.+
_TWENTY-THIRD THOUSAND._
"The author has given proof of a rarer dramatic instinct than we had
suspected among our living writers of fiction. It is not possible by
means of extracts to convey any adequate sense of the humour, the
pathos, the dramatic power and graphic description of this book."--THE
NONCOMFORMIST.
"Mrs. Henry Wood has made a welcome addition to the list of the works of
contemporary fiction."--ATHENÆUM (_second notice_).
"These most exquisite studies."--NONCOMFORMIST (_second notice_).
"These tales are delightful from their unaffected and sometimes pathetic
simplicity."--STANDARD (_second notice_).
"To write a short story really well is the most difficult part of the
art of fiction; and 'Johnny Ludlow' has succeeded in it in such a manner
that his--or rather her--art looks like nature, and is hardly less
surprising for its excellence than for the fertility of invention on
which it is founded."--GLOBE.
"Freshness of tone, briskness of movement, vigour, reality, humour,
pathos. It is safe to affirm that there is not a single story which will
not be read with pleasure by both sexes, of all ages."--ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS.
19.
ANNE HEREFORD.
_THIRTY-FIFTH THOUSAND._
"Mrs. Wood's story, 'Anne Hereford,' is a favourable specimen of her
manner; the incidents are well planned, and the narrative is easy and
vigorous."--THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS.
20.
DENE HOLLOW.
_THIRTY-FIFTH THOUSAND._
"Novel-readers wishing to be entertained, and deeply interested in
character and incident, will find their curiosity wholesomely gratified
by the graphic pages of 'Dene Hollow,' an excellent novel, without the
drawbacks of wearisome digressions and monotonous platitudes so common
in the chapters of modern fiction."--THE MORNING POST.
21.
EDINA.
_TWENTY-FIFTH THOUSAND._
"The whole situation of the book is clever, and the plot is well
managed."--ACADEMY.
"Edina's character is beautifully drawn."--THE LITERARY WORLD.
22.
A LIFE'S SECRET.
_THIRTY-EIGHTH THOUSAND._
"Now that the rights of capital and labour are being fully inquired
into, Mrs. Wood's story of a 'A Life's Secret' is particularly opportune
and interesting. It is based upon a plot that awakens curiosity and
keeps it alive throughout. The hero and heroine are marked with
individuality, the love-passages are finely drawn, and the story
developed with judgment."--THE CIVIL SERVICE GAZETTE.
"If Mrs. Wood's book does not tend to eradicate the cowardice, folly,
and slavish submission to lazy agitators among the working men, all we
can say is that it ought to do so, for it is at once well written,
effective, and truthful."--THE ILLUSTRATED TIMES.
23.
COURT NETHERLEIGH.
_TWENTY-SIXTH THOUSAND._
"We always open one of Mrs. Wood's novels with pleasure, because we are
sure of being amused and interested."--THE TIMES.
"Lisez-le; l'émotion que vous sentirez peu à peu monter à votre coeur
est saine et fortifiante. Lisez-le; c'est un livre honnête sorti d'une
plume honnête et vous pourrez le laisser traîner sur la table."--LE
SIGNAL (_Paris_).
24.
LADY GRACE.
_SIXTEENTH THOUSAND._
"Lady Grace worthily continues a series of novels thoroughly English in
feeling and sentiment, and which fairly illustrate many phases of our
national life."--MORNING POST.
25.
BESSY RANE.
_THIRTIETH THOUSAND._
"The power to draw minutely and carefully each character with
characteristic individuality in word and action is Mrs. Wood's especial
gift. This endows her pages with a vitality which carries the reader to
the end, and leaves him with the feeling that the veil which in real
life separates man from man has been raised, and that he has for once
seen and known certain people as intimately as if he had been their
guardian angel. This is a great fascination."--THE ATHENÆUM.
26.
PARKWATER.
_TWENTIETH THOUSAND._
"Mrs. Wood's pleasant style and vivid imagination were never more
pleasantly manifested."--JOHN BULL.
27.
THE UNHOLY WISH, ETC.
"The characters and situations of which the author made her books are,
indeed, beyond criticism; their interest has been proved by the
experience of generations."--PALL-MALL GAZETTE.
28.
JOHNNY LUDLOW.
+The Third Series.+
"The peculiar and unfailing charm of Mrs. Wood's style has rarely been
more apparent than in this succession of chronicles, partly of rustic
life, some relating to the fortunes of persons in a higher class, but
all remarkable for an easy simplicity of tone, true to nature."--MORNING
POST.
29.
THE MASTER OF GREYLANDS.
_THIRTIETH THOUSAND._
"A book by Mrs. Wood is sure to be a good one, and no one who opens 'The
Master of Greylands' in anticipation of an intellectual treat will
be disappointed. The keen analysis of character, and the admirable
management of the plot, alike attest the clever novelist."--JOHN BULL.
30.
ORVILLE COLLEGE.
_THIRTY-THIRD THOUSAND._
"Mrs. Wood's stories bear the impress of her versatile talent and
well-known skill in turning to account the commonplaces of daily life
as well as the popular superstitions of the multitude."--THE LITERARY
WORLD.
31.
POMEROY ABBEY.
_THIRTIETH THOUSAND._
"All the Pomeroys are very cleverly individualised, and the way in which
the mystery is worked up, including its one horribly tragic incident, is
really beyond all praise."--THE MORNING POST.
32.
JOHNNY LUDLOW.
+Fourth Series.+
"Fresh, clear, simple, strong in purpose and in execution, these stories
have won admiration as true works of inventive art. Without a single
exception they maintain a powerful hold upon the mind of the reader, and
keep his sympathies in a continued state of healthy excitement."--DAILY
TELEGRAPH.
33.
ADAM GRAINGER, ETC.
"Mrs. Wood fulfils all the requisites of a good novelist; she interests
people in her books, makes them anxious about the characters, and
furnishes an intricate and carefully-woven plot."--MORNING POST.
34.
JOHNNY LUDLOW.
+Fifth Series.+
"Freshness of tone, briskness of movement, vigour, reality, humour,
pathos. It is safe to affirm that there is not a single story which will
not be read with pleasure by both sexes, of all ages."--ILLUSTRATED
LONDON NEWS.
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Transcriber's Note
For this txt-version italics were surrounded with _underscores_, words
in Old English font with +signs+, and small capitals changed to all
capitals.
Errors in punctuation were corrected silently. Also the following
corrections were made, on page
18 "goal" changed to "gaol" (She's in the county gaol.)
77 "wan't" changed to "want" (If you want me I shall be found)
98 "litttle" changed to "little" (a little given to scheming)
132 "litttle" changed to "little" (they'll be a little too much)
203 "as" changed to "at" (We laughed at him about)
203 "postilion" changed to "postillion" (the postillion in his undress
jacket)
204 "plaecs" changed to "places" (finding places for)
207 "Todhetloy" changed to "Todhetley" (talked to me about you, Mr.
Todhetley.)
223 "o" changed to "of" (with roving ideas of Australia)
230 "Sophonsiba" canged to "Sophonisba" (Sophonisba was treated as)
277 "or" changed to "of" (a letter of warm thanks)
357 "roon" changed to "room" (the billiard-room)
405 "Jonnny" changed to "Johnny" (to Alcester, Johnny," said the
Pater)
432 "grande" changed to "Grande" (She turned up the Grande Rue).
Otherwise the original was preserved, including inconsistent spelling
and hyphenation.
End of Project Gutenberg's Johnny Ludlow. First Series, by Mrs. Henry Wood