This might paradoxically be called a genial ghost-and-murder story, yet
humor and humanity again dominate, and the most striking element is the
touching love story of an unsuccessful man. The reappearance in
Nineteenth Century London of the long-buried past, and a remarkable case
of suspended memory, give the dramatic background.
"Really worth reading and praising ... will be hailed as a
masterpiece. If any writer of the present era is read a half
century hence, a quarter century, or even a decade, that writer is
William De Morgan."--_Boston Transcript._
"It is the Victorian age itself that speaks in those rich,
interesting, over-crowded books.... Will be remembered as Dickens'
novels are remembered."--_Springfield Republican._