_DAILY NEWS._--“There is a rush and a splendour about the whole
narrative that sweeps the reader from his feet.... _The Human Chord_ is
a book to haunt and to inspire.”
Mr. HILAIRE BELLOC in the _WESTMINSTER GAZETTE_.--“No short notice
of work of this description can do any more than announce it; it is
not susceptible to analysis, or, for that matter, to description; but
it is work which could not have been done in any other country than
England, nor perhaps in any other medium than English, and certainly
not successfully done by any other author. It is unique, and should be
a matter of national pride.”
_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--“The author has had, one may say, a stupendous
idea, and he has carried it out with all the zeal and all the talent
which is in him.... It is a wonderful tale.”
_ATHENÆUM._--“Compact and intense, Mr. Blackwood’s story captivates the
reader.”
_GUARDIAN._--“No writer of the present day has so keen a sense of the
supernatural as Mr. Blackwood. It amounts to genius. He creates his
atmosphere, and, having found it, he keeps it He never makes a mistake
or strikes a jarring note. In his present novel he reaches a height not
previously attained; he touches on deeper problems, and is perhaps more
arresting than he has ever been.”
_GLOBE._--“_The Human Chord_ is a singularly arresting book, in a sense
defying description and analysis. To read it is to live in the mind of
an author steeped in the mystic and believing in the unseen things of
which he writes.”