The first novel of a new master. The work has gained wide-spread
recognition on both sides of the water. Three of the most conservative
and authoritative publications in England include it among the first
twelve of the year. In this country _Harper's Weekly_ gives it as one of
the two most interesting novels of the year.
_The critics differ as to with what other master George Douglas should be
compared_:
_The London Times_ says: "Worthy of the hand that drew 'Weir of
Hermiston,'" and that "Balzac and Flaubert, had they been Scotch, would
have written such a book."
_The Spectator_: "His masters are Zola and Balzac, but there are few
traces of the novice and none of the imitator."
_Vanity Fair_: "It moves to its end with all the terrible unity of an
AEschylean tragedy."
_Harper's Weekly_: "If Thomas Hardy had written of Scotland, instead of
Wessex, it would have been something like 'The House with the Green
Shutters'.... If any man is his (Douglas') master it is Thomas Hardy."
Hardy, Stevenson, Zola, Flaubert, Balzac, and AEschylus.
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