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"Subject to the qualifications thus disposed of (_vide_ first part
of notice), 'An Outcast of the Islands' is perhaps the finest piece
of fiction that has been published this year, as 'Almayer's Folly'
was one of the finest that was published in 1895.... Surely this is
real romance--the romance that is real. Space forbids anything but
the merest recapitulation of the other living realities of Mr.
Conrad's invention--of Lingard, of the inimitable Almayer, the
one-eyed Babalatchi, the Naturalist, of the pious Abdulla--all
novel, all authentic. Enough has been written to show Mr. Conrad's
quality. He imagines his scenes and their sequence like a master;
he knows his individualities and their hearts; he has a new and
wonderful field in this East Indian Novel of his.... Greatness is
deliberately written; the present writer has read and re-read his
two books, and after putting this review aside for some days to
consider the discretion of it, the word still stands."--_Saturday
Review._