twins"—are delightfully funny. No more original children were ever put
into a book. Their audacity, unmanageableness, and genius for
mischief—in none of which qualities, as they are here shown, is there
any taint of vice—are refreshing; and it is impossible not to follow,
with very keen interest, the progress of these youngsters.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=—‘Everybody ought to read it, for it is an
inexhaustible source of refreshing and highly stimulating
entertainment.’
=The World.=—‘There is much powerful and some beautiful writing in this
strange book.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=—‘Sarah Grand ... has put enough observation,
humour, and thought into this book to furnish forth half-a-dozen
ordinary novels.’
=Punch.=—‘The Twins themselves are a creation: the epithet “Heavenly”
for these two mischievous little fiends is admirable.’
=The Queen.=—‘There is a touch of real genius in _The Heavenly Twins_.’
=The Guardian.=—‘Exceptionally brilliant in dialogue, and dealing with
modern society life, this book has a purpose—to draw out and emancipate
women.’
=The Lady.=—‘Apart from its more serious interest, the book should take
high rank on its literary merits alone. Its pages are brimful of good
things, and more than one passage, notably the episode of “The Boy and
the Tenor,” is a poem complete in itself, and worthy of separate
publication.’
=The Manchester Examiner.=—‘As surely as _Tess of the d’Urbervilles_
swept all before it last year, so surely has Sarah Grand’s _Heavenly
Twins_ provoked the greatest attention and comment this season. It is a
most daringly original work.... Sarah Grand is a notable Woman’s
Righter, but her book is the one asked for at Mudie’s, suburban, and
seaside libraries, and discussed at every hotel table in the kingdom.
The episode of the “Tenor and the Boy” is of rare beauty, and is
singularly delicate and at the same time un-English in treatment.’
=The New York Critic.=—‘It is written in an epigrammatic style, and,
besides its cleverness, has the great charm of freshness, enthusiasm,
and poetic feeling.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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IDEALA
A STUDY FROM LIFE
BY SARAH GRAND
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Morning Post.=—‘Sarah Grand’s _Ideala_.... A clever book in itself,
is especially interesting when read in the light of her later works.
Standing alone, it is remarkable as the outcome of an earnest mind
seeking in good faith the solution of a difficult and ever present
problem.... _Ideala_ is original and somewhat daring.... The story is in
many ways delightful and thought-suggesting.’
=The Literary World.=—‘When Sarah Grand came before the public in 1888
with _Ideala_, she consciously and firmly laid her finger on one of the
keynotes of the age.... We welcome an edition that will place this
minute and careful study of an interesting question within reach of a
wider circle of readers.’
=The Liverpool Mercury.=—‘The book is a wonderful one—an evangel for the
fair sex, and at once an inspiration and a comforting companion, to
which thoughtful womanhood will recur again and again.’
=The Glasgow Herald.=—‘_Ideala_ has attained the honour of a fifth
edition.... The stir created by _The Heavenly Twins_, the more recent
work by the same authoress, Madame Sarah Grand, would justify this step.
_Ideala_ can, however, stand on its own merits.’
=The Yorkshire Post.=—‘As a psychological study the book cannot fail to
be of interest to many readers.’
=The Birmingham Gazette.=—‘Madame Sarah Grand thoroughly deserves her
success. Ideala, the heroine, is a splendid conception, and her opinions
are noble.... The book is not one to be forgotten.’
=The Woman’s Herald.=—‘One naturally wishes to know something of the
woman for whose sake Lord Downe remained a bachelor. It must be
confessed that at first _Ideala_ is a little disappointing. She is
strikingly original.... As the story advances one forgets these
peculiarities, and can find little but sympathy and admiration for the
many noble qualities of a very complex character.’
=The Englishman.=—‘Madame Sarah Grand’s work is far from being a common
work. Ideala is a clever young woman of great capabilities and noble
purposes.... The originality of the book does not lie in the plot, but
in the authoress’s power to see and to describe the finer shades of a
character which is erratic and impetuous, but above all things truly
womanly.’
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OUR MANIFOLD NATURE
BY SARAH GRAND
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Daily Telegraph.=—‘Six stories by the gifted writer who still
chooses to be known to the public at large by the pseudonym of “=Sarah
Grand=.” In regard to them it is sufficient to say that they display all
the qualities, stylistic, humorous, and pathetic, that have placed the
author of _Ideala_ and _The Heavenly Twins_ in the very front rank of
contemporary novelists.’
=The Globe.=—‘Brief studies of character, sympathetic, and suggesting
that “Sarah Grand” can do something more than startle by her
unconventionality and boldness.’
=The Ladies’ Pictorial.=—‘If the volume does not achieve even greater
popularity than Sarah Grand’s former works, it will be a proof that
fashion, not intrinsic merit, has a great deal to do with the success of
a book.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=—‘All are eminently entertaining.’
=The Spectator.=—‘Insight into, and general sympathy with widely
differing phases of humanity, coupled with power to reproduce what is
seen, with vivid distinct strokes, that rivet the attention, are
qualifications for work of the kind contained in _Our Manifold Nature_
which Sarah Grand evidently possesses in a high degree.... All these
studies, male and female alike, are marked by humour, pathos, fidelity
to life, and power to recognise in human nature the frequent recurrence
of some apparently incongruous and remote trait, which, when at last it
becomes visible, helps to a comprehension of what might otherwise be
inexplicable.’
=The Speaker.=—‘In _Our Manifold Nature_ Sarah Grand is seen at her
best. How good that is can only be known by those who read for
themselves this admirable little volume. In freshness of conception and
originality of treatment these stories are delightful, full of force and
piquancy, whilst the studies of character are carried out with equal
firmness and delicacy.’
=The Guardian.=—‘_Our Manifold Nature_ is a clever book. Sarah Grand has
the power of touching common things, which, if it fails to make them
“rise to touch the spheres,” renders them exceedingly interesting.’
=The Morning Post.=—‘Unstinted praise is deserved by the Irish story,
“Boomellen,” a tale remarkable both for power and pathos.’
=The Court Journal.=—‘_Our Manifold Nature_ is simply fall of good
things, and it is essentially a book to buy as well as to read.’
=The Birmingham Gazette.=—‘Mrs. Grand has genuine power. She analyses
keenly.... Her humour is good, and her delineation of character one of
her strongest points. The book is one to be read, studied, and acted
upon.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE EBB-TIDE
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
AND
LLOYD OSBOURNE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=—‘This is a novel of sensation. But the episodes and
incidents, although thrilling enough, are consistently subordinated to
sensationalism of character.... There is just enough of the coral reef
and the palm groves, of cerulean sky and pellucid water, to indicate
rather than to present the local colouring. Yet when he dashes in a
sketch it is done to perfection.... We see the scene vividly unrolled
before us.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=—‘The story is full of strong scenes, depicted
with a somewhat lavish use of violet pigments, such as, perhaps, the
stirring situations demand. Here and there, however, are purple patches,
in which Mr. Stevenson shows all his cunning literary art—the
description of the coral island, for instance.... Some intensely graphic
and dramatic pages delineate the struggle which causes, and a final
scene ... concludes this strange fragment from the wild life of the
South Sea.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=—‘The book takes your imagination and
attention captive from the first chapter—nay, from the first
paragraph—and it does not set them free till the last word has been
read.’
=The Standard.=—‘Mr. Stevenson gives such vitality to his characters,
and so clear an outlook upon the strange quarter of the world to which
he takes us, that when we reach the end of the story, we come back to
civilisation with a start of surprise, and a moment’s difficulty in
realising that we have not been actually away from it.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘We are swept along without a pause on the
current of the animated and vigorous narrative. Each incident and
adventure is told with that incomparable keenness of vision which is Mr.
Stevenson’s greatest charm as a story-teller.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=—‘It is brilliantly invented, and it is not less
brilliantly told. There is not a dull sentence in the whole run of it.
And the style is fresh, alert, full of surprises—in fact, is very good
latter-day Stevenson indeed.’
=The World.=—‘It is amazingly clever, full of that extraordinary
knowledge of human nature which makes certain creations of Mr.
Stevenson’s pen far more real to us than persons we have met in the
flesh. Grisly the book undoubtedly is, with a strength and a vigour of
description hardly to be matched in the language.... But it is just
because the book is so extraordinarily good that it ought to be better,
ought to be more of a serious whole than a mere brilliant display of
fireworks, though each firework display has more genius in it than is to
be found in ninety-nine out of every hundred books supposed to contain
that rare quality.’
=The Morning Post.=—‘Boldly conceived, probing some of the darkest
depths of the human soul, the tale has a vigour and breadth of touch
which have been surpassed in none of Mr. Stevenson’s previous works....
We do not, of course, know how much Mr. Osbourne has contributed to the
tale, but there is no chapter in it which any author need be unwilling
to acknowledge, or which is wanting in vivid interest.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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BY I. ZANGWILL
With A Photogravure Portrait of the Author
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=Morning Post.=—‘The merits of the book are great. Its range of
observation is wide; its sketches of character are frequently admirably
drawn.... It is extremely refreshing, after a surfeit of recent fiction
of the prevalent type, to welcome a really clever work by a writer who
is certainly not hampered by conventional prejudice.’
=The Queen.=—‘It is impossible to deny the greatness of a book like _The
Master_, a veritable human document, in which the characters do exactly
as they would in life.... I venture to say that Matt himself is one of
the most striking and original characters in our fiction, and I have not
the least doubt that _The Master_ will always be reckoned one of our
classics.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘It is a powerful and masterly piece of work....
Quite the best novel of the year.’
=Literary World.=—‘In _The Master_, Mr. Zangwill has eclipsed all his
previous work. This strong and striking story of patience and passion,
of sorrow and success, of art, ambition, and vain gauds, is genuinely
powerful in its tragedy, and picturesque in its completeness.... The
work, thoroughly wholesome in tone, is of sterling merit, and strikes a
truly tragic chord, which leaves a deep impression upon the mind.’
=Jewish World.=—‘For a novel to be a work that shall live, and not
merely please the passing taste of a section of the public, it must
palpitate with the truth of human experience and human feeling.... Such
a novel is _The Master_, Mr. Zangwill’s latest, and assuredly one of his
best works. Interest in the story is sustained from beginning to end.
From the first page to the last we get a series of vivid pictures that
make us feel, as well as understand, not only the personality and
environment of his characters, but the motives that compel, like fate,
their words and actions.’
=Leeds Mercury.=—‘_The Master_ is impassioned and powerful, and, in our
judgment, is vastly superior to _Children of the Ghetto_. From the first
page to the last the book is quick with life, and not less quick
surprises.... The impression which the book leaves is deep and distinct,
and the power, from start to finish, of such a delineation of life is
unmistakable.’
=Liverpool Mercury.=—‘The accomplished author of _Children of the
Ghetto_ has given us in _The Master_ a book written with marvellous
skill, and characterised by vivid imaginative power. It is not a volume
to be taken up and despatched in a leisure evening, but one to be
studied and enjoyed in many an hour of quiet, or to be read aloud in the
family circle, when the toils of the day have given place to retirement
and peace.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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CHILDREN OF THE GHETTO
A Study of a Peculiar People
BY I. ZANGWILL
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=—‘From whatever point of view we regard it, it is a
remarkable book.’
=The Athenæum.=—‘The chief interest of the book lies in the wonderful
description of the Whitechapel Jews. The vividness and force with which
Mr. Zangwill brings before us the strange and uncouth characters with
which he has peopled his book are truly admirable.... Admirers of Mr.
Zangwill’s fecund wit will not fail to find flashes of it in these
pages.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘Altogether we are not aware of any such minute,
graphic, and seemingly faithful picture of the Israel of nineteenth
century London.... The book has taken hold of us.’
=The Spectator.=—‘Esther Ansell, Raphael Leon, Mrs. Henry Goldsmith, Reb
Shemuel, and the rest, are living creations.’
=The Speaker.=—‘A strong and remarkable book.’
=The National Observer.=—‘To ignore this book is not to know the East
End Jew.’
=The Guardian.=—‘A novel such as only our own day could produce. A
masterly study of a complicated psychological problem in which every
factor is handled with such astonishing dexterity and intelligence that
again and again we are tempted to think a really good book has come into
our hands.’
=The Graphic.=—‘Absolutely fascinating. Teaches how closely akin are
laughter and tears.’
=Black and White.=—‘A moving panorama of Jewish life, full of truth,
full of sympathy, vivid in the setting forth, and occasionally most
brilliant. Such a book as this has the germs of a dozen novels. A book
to read, to keep, to ponder over, to remember.’
=W. Archer in ‘The World.’=—‘The most powerful and fascinating book I
have read for many a long day.’
=Land and Water.=—‘The most wonderful multi-coloured and brilliant
description. Dickens has never drawn characters of more abiding
individuality. An exceeding beautiful chapter is the honeymoon of the
Hyams. Charles Kingsley in one of his books makes for something of the
same sort. But his idea is not half so tender and faithful, nor his
handling anything like so delicate and natural.’
=Andrew Lang in ‘Longman’s Magazine.’=—‘Almost every kind of reader will
find _Children of the Ghetto_ interesting.’
=T. P. O’Connor in ‘The Weekly Sun.’=—‘Apart altogether from its great
artistic merits, from its clear portraits, its subtle and skilful
analysis of character, its pathos and its humour, this book has, in my
mind, an immense interest as a record of a generation that has passed
and of struggles that are yet going on.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=—‘The best Jewish novel ever written.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE KING OF SCHNORRERS
=Grotesques and Fantasies=
BY I. ZANGWILL
With over Ninety Illustrations by PHIL MAY and Others
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=—‘Several of Mr. Zangwill’s contemporary Ghetto
characters have already become almost classical; but in _The King of
Schnorrers_ he goes back to the Jewish community of the eighteenth
century for the hero of his principal story; and he is indeed a
stupendous hero ... anyhow, he is well named the king of beggars. The
illustrations, by Phil May, add greatly to the attraction of the book.’
=The Saturday Review.=—‘Mr. Zangwill has created a new figure in
fiction, and a new type of humour. The entire series of adventures is a
triumphant progress.... Humour of a rich and active character pervades
the delightful history of Manasses. Mr. Zangwill’s book is altogether
very good reading. It is also very cleverly illustrated by Phil May and
other artists.’
=The Literary World.=—‘Of Mr. Zangwill’s versatility there is ample
proof in this new volume of stories.... More noticeable and welcome to
us, as well as more characteristic of the author, are the fresh
additions he has made to his long series of studies of Jewish life.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=—‘_The King of Schnorrers_ is a very
fascinating story. Mr. Zangwill returns to the Ghetto, and gives us a
quaint old-world picture as a most appropriate setting for his
picturesque hero, the beggar-king.... Good as the story of the
arch-schnorrer is there is perhaps an even better “Yiddish” tale in this
book. This is “Flutter-Duck.”... Let us call attention to the
excellence, as mere realistic vivid description, of the picture of the
room and atmosphere and conditions in which Flutter-Duck and her circle
dwelt; there is something of Dickens in this.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=—‘_The King of Schnorrers_, like _Children of the
Ghetto_, depicts the habits and characteristics of Israel in London with
painstaking elaborateness and apparent verisimilitude. _The King of
Schnorrers_ is a character-sketch which deals with the manners and
customs of native and foreign Jews as they “lived and had their being”
in the London of a century and a quarter ago.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘It is a beautiful story. _The King of
Schnorrers_ is that great rarity—an entirely new thing, that is as good
as it is new.’
=The Glasgow Herald.-=-‘On the whole, the book does justice to Mr.
Zangwill’s rapidly-growing reputation, and the character of Manasseh
ought to live.’
=The World.=—‘The exuberant and even occasionally overpowering humour of
Mr. Zangwill is at his highest mark in his new volume, _The King of
Schnorrers_.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE PREMIER AND THE PAINTER
BY I. ZANGWILL AND LOUIS COWEN
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Cambridge (University) Review.=—‘That the book will have readers in
a future generation we do not doubt, for there is much in it that is of
lasting merit.’
=The Graphic.=—‘It might be worth the while of some industrious and
capable person with plenty of leisure to reproduce in a volume of
reasonable size the epigrams and other good things witty and serious
which _The Premier and the Painter_ contains. There are plenty of them,
and many are worth noting and remembering,’
=St. James’s Gazette.=—‘The satire hits all round with much
impartiality; while one striking situation succeeds another till the
reader is altogether dazzled. The story is full of life and “go” and
brightness, and will well repay perusal.’
=The Athenæum.=—‘In spite of its close print and its five hundred pages
_The Premier and the Painter_ is not very difficult to read. To speak of
it, however, is difficult. It is the sort of book that demands yet
defies quotation for one thing; and for another it is the sort of book
the description of which as “very clever” is at once inevitable and
inadequate. In some ways it is original enough to be a law unto itself,
and withal as attractive in its whimsical, wrong-headed way, as at times
it is tantalising, bewildering, even tedious. The theme is politics and
politicians, and the treatment, while for the most part satirical and
prosaic, is often touched with sentiment, and sometimes even with a
fantastic kind of poetry. The several episodes of the story are wildly
fanciful in themselves and are clumsily connected; but the streak of
humorous cynicism which shows through all of them is both curious and
pleasing. Again, it has to be claimed for the author that—as is shown to
admiration by his presentation of the excellent Mrs. Dawe and her
cookshop—he is capable, when he pleases, of insight and observation of a
high order, and therewith of a masterly sobriety of tone. But he cannot
be depended upon for the length of a single page; he seeks his effects
and his material when and where he pleases. In some respects his method
is not, perhaps, altogether unlike Lord Beaconsfield’s. To our thinking,
however, he is strong enough to go alone, and to go far.’
=The World.=—‘Undeniably clever, though with a somewhat mixed and
eccentric cleverness.’
=The Morning Post.=—‘The story is described as a “fantastic romance,”
and, indeed, fantasy reigns supreme from the first to the last of its
pages. It relates the history of our time with humour and well-aimed
sarcasm. All the most prominent characters of the day, whether political
or otherwise, come in for notice. The identity of the leading
politicians is but thinly veiled, while many celebrities appear _in
propriâ personâ_. Both the “Premier” and “Painter” now and again find
themselves in the most critical situations. Certainly this is not a
story that he who runs may read, but it is cleverly original, and often
lightened by bright flashes of wit.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE COUNTESS RADNA
BY W. E. NORRIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=—‘He is a remarkably even writer. And this novel is almost
as good a medium as any other for studying the delicacy and dexterity of
his workmanship.’
=The National Observer.=—‘Interesting and well written, as all Mr.
Norris’s stories are.’
=The Morning Post.=—‘The fidelity of his portraiture is remarkable, and
it has rarely appeared to so much advantage as in this brilliant novel.’
=The Saturday Review.=—‘_The Countess Radna_, which its author not
unjustly describes as “an unpretending tale,” avoids, by the grace of
its style and the pleasant accuracy of its characterisation, any
suspicion of boredom.’
=The Daily News.=—‘_The Countess Radna_ contains many of the qualities
that make a story by this writer welcome to the critic. It is caustic in
style, the character drawing is clear, the talk natural; the pages are
strewn with good things worth quoting.’
=The Speaker.=—‘In style, skill in construction, and general “go,” it is
worth a dozen ordinary novels.’
=The Academy.=—‘As a whole, the book is decidedly well written, while it
is undeniably interesting. It is bright and wholesome: the work in fact
of a gentleman and a man who knows the world about which he writes.’
=Black and White.=—‘The novel, like all Mr. Norris’s work is an
excessively clever piece of work, and the author never for a moment
allows his grasp of his plot and his characters to slacken.’
=The Gentlewoman.=—‘Mr. Norris is a practised hand at his craft. He can
write bright dialogue and clear English, too.’
=The Literary World.=—‘His last novel, _The Countess Radna_, is an
excellent sample of his style. The plot is simple enough. But the story
holds the attention and insists upon being read; and it is scarcely
possible to say anything more favourable of a work of fiction.’
=The Scotsman.=—‘The story, in which there is more than a spice of
modern life romance, is an excellent study of the problem of mixed
marriage. The book is one of good healthy reading, and reveals a fine
broad view of life and human nature.’