of the hero’s character is excellent. The story is crowded with minor
characters, all clearly individualised and seen in nice relation to
their surroundings. There is much power of observation, much knowledge
of life and art displayed throughout.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=—‘A piece of life and a work of art.... Mr.
Keary’s men and women are solid all through. He is as honest in his
presentation of life as Mr. Gissing, but he is more pointed and wittier;
he is less witty than Mr. Meredith, but he is more responsible.... Mr.
Keary’s work stands out as a very brilliant piece of honest,
knowledgable, wise artistry. We say it deliberately, that there are very
few novels of our time that bear so unmistakably the grip of the
master-hand as _Herbert Vanlennert_.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=—‘A novel like this helps us at once to
understand, to judge, and to enjoy life; and that is to say that he has
written a novel of the kind that only the great novelists write. From
time to time there comes a new novel marked by a kind and degree of
excellence that compels praise of an emphatic kind. There need be no
hesitation about deciding that _Herbert Vanlennert_ is such a book.’
=The Review of Reviews.=—‘In _Herbert Vanlennert_ indeed is a whole
little world of living people—friends and acquaintances whom it is not
easy to forget.’
=The Sketch.=—‘Full of cleverness and a legitimate realism. Of two of
the most strongly marked and skilfully drawn characters, one is Maynard,
the artist of genius; the other, a striking contrast to Maynard, is
Bernard, who passes a serene existence in the study of metaphysics. Very
charming and interesting are Mr. Keary’s bright and vivid descriptions
of English country life and scenery in Derbyshire.’
=St. Paul’s.=—‘The book contains much clever writing, and is in many
respects a strong one.’
=Black and White.=—‘There is abundance of skilfully drawn characters and
brilliantly sketched incidents, which, once read, cannot be forgotten.’
=The Scotsman.=—‘Mr. Keary, even when he is treading on delicate ground,
writes with circumspection and cleverness.’
=The Bradford Observer.=—‘It is a fine piece of art, and should touch
its readers to fine issues.’
=The Manchester Courier.=—‘The book is most interesting, and embodies a
great deal of careful work, besides some very plain speaking.’
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THE YEARS THAT THE LOCUST
HATH EATEN
BY ANNIE E. HOLDSWORTH
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Literary World.=—‘The novel is marked by great strength, which is
always under subjection to the author’s gift of restraint, so that we
are made to feel the intensity all the more. Pathos and humour (in the
true sense) go together through these chapters; and for such qualities
as earnestness, insight, moral courage, and thoughtfulness, _The Years
that the Locust hath Eaten_ stands out prominently among noteworthy
books of the time.’
=The Daily News.=—‘Bears out to the full the promise given by _Joanna
Traill, Spinster_. The author has a genuine sense of humour and an eye
for character, and if she bids us weep at the tragedy of life and death,
she makes us smile by her pleasant handling of human foible and
eccentricities.’
=The Standard.=—‘A worthy successor to _Joanna Traill, Spinster_. It is
quite as powerful. It has insight and sympathy and pathos, humour, and
some shrewd understanding of human nature scattered up and down its
pages. Moreover, there is beauty in the story and idealism.... Told with
a humour, a grace, a simplicity, that ought to give the story a long
reign.... The charm of the book is undeniable; it is one that only a
clever woman, full of the best instincts of her sex, could have
written.’
=The Review of Reviews.=—‘It has all the charm and simplicity of
treatment which gave its predecessor (_Joanna Traill, Spinster_) its
vogue.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=—‘The book should not be missed by a fastidious
novel-reader.’
=The Court Journal.=—‘The moral of the book is excellent; the style
strong and bold.’
=The Scotsman.=—‘The story is well told, and a vein of humour serves to
bring the pathos into higher relief.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=—‘It is sincere and conscientious, and it
shows appreciation of the value of reticence.’
=The Manchester Courier.=—‘The book is full of delicate touches of
characterisation, and is written with considerable sense of style.’
=The Glasgow Herald.=—‘Worked out with great skill and success.... The
story is powerfully told.’
=The Liverpool Mercury.=—‘The story is told with sympathy and pathos,
and the concluding chapters are touching in the extreme.’
=The Birmingham Gazette.=—‘A sad story beautifully written, containing
pure thoughts and abundant food for reflection upon the misery which
exists in the world at the present day. The tale is particularly
pathetic, but it is true in character. It will be read with interest.’
=The Leeds Mercury.=—‘Full of powerful situations.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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IN HASTE AND AT LEISURE
BY E. LYNN LINTON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Speaker.=—‘Mrs. Lynn Linton commands the respect of her readers and
critics. Her new story, _In Haste and at Leisure_, is as powerful a
piece of writing as any that we owe to her pen.’
=The St. James’s Budget.=—‘A thorough mistress of English, Mrs. Lynn
Linton uses the weapons of knowledge and ridicule, of sarcasm and logic,
with powerful effect; the shallow pretences of the “New Woman” are
ruthlessly torn aside.’
=The Literary World.=—‘Whatever its exaggerations may be, _In Haste and
at Leisure_ remains a notable achievement. It has given us pleasure, and
we can recommend it with confidence.’
=The Court Journal.=—‘The book is a long but brilliant homily and series
of object-lessons against the folly and immorality of the modern craze
of the most advanced women, who rail against men, marriage, and
maternity. The book is immensely powerful, and intensely interesting.’
=The Daily Graphic.=—‘It is an interesting story, while it is the most
tremendous all-round cannonade to which the fair emancipated have been
subjected.’
=The World.=—‘It is clever, and well written.’
=The Graphic.=—‘It is thoroughly interesting, and it is full of passages
that almost irresistibly tempt quotation.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=—‘It is a novel that ought to be, and will be,
widely read and enjoyed.’
=The Globe.=—‘It is impossible not to recognise and acknowledge its
great literary merit.’
=The Glasgow Herald.=—‘_In Haste and at Leisure_ is a striking and even
brilliant novel.’
=The Manchester Courier.=—‘In this cruelly scientific analyses of the
“New Woman,” Mrs. Lynn Linton writes with all the bitterness of Dean
Swift. The book is one of remarkable power.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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CHIMÆRA
BY F. MABEL ROBINSON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Saturday Review.=—‘Every page of it is worth reading. The author
sets herself to write a fascinating book, and, in our opinion, has
undoubtedly succeeded.’
=The World.=—‘There are good things in this novel; excellent
character-drawing, some forcibly realistic chapters in the life of a
common soldier.’
=The Daily News.=—‘The story is skilfully constructed, and will
certainly add to Miss Robinson’s reputation.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘Miss Robinson writes but little, and writes that
little carefully.... Herein also is Miss Robinson true to life, and not
false to art.’
=The Realm.=—‘The story is powerfully written. It is worth reading.’
=The Standard.=—‘All the vicissitudes of Treganna’s career are
interesting, and are vividly told.’
=The Lady.=—‘A story of exceptional power and absorbing interest,
earnest, forcible, intensely human, and of high literary merit.’
=The Observer.=—‘The book is very ably written, and it is well worth
reading.’
=The Globe.=—‘There are in this book much power of observation, a
relentless truthfulness, and a recognition of the value of detail. It
should enchain the attention of the most callous reader.’
=The Sunday Times.=—‘A remarkably clever sketch of a man’s life and
character.... The literary workmanship is good without being
laboured.... We wish it the appreciation, not only of those who can
distinguish good literature, but of those who prefer the good from the
bad.’
=Black and White.=—‘An original plot vigorously treated.’
=The Daily Graphic.=—‘The whole story of the relations between Joseph
Treganna and Fanny Star is very human, and handled with a breadth and
understanding which very few women novelists of the day could hope to
rival, while the gradual abandonment by the man of the outposts whereon
he has planted his colours is admirable in its inevitableness.’
=Woman.=—‘A superb novel, strong and full of life, packed with
observation and humour of the deep subcutaneous sort.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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THE STORY OF
A MODERN WOMAN
BY ELLA HEPWORTH DIXON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=—‘Miss Dixon shows herself no ineffective satirist of the
shams and snobbishness of society.’
=The Academy.=—‘No one who reads _The Story of a Modern Woman_ will be
likely to gainsay the excellence of its writing, and the genuine talent
shown by Miss Dixon.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=—‘A subtle study, written by a woman, about a
woman, and from the point of view of a distinctly clever and modern
woman herself.... Miss Dixon has scored a great success in the treatment
of her novel.’
=Vanity Fair.=—‘The main thread of the story is powerful and pathetic;
but there are lighter touches, wit and humour, and here and there what
seem like shadows of people we have seen and known.... In a word, a book
to buy, to read, and to enjoy.’
=Black and White.=—‘The social sketches, with which this little story of
modern, literary, fashionable, and Bohemian London is full, are very
cleverly touched in.’
=The Graphic.=—‘Miss Ella Hepworth Dixon has inherited no small share of
her father’s literary gifts, and she adds to it a faculty of
observation, and a constructive and narrative skill, which are of
considerable promise.’
=The National Observer.=—‘She writes well, and shows not a little power
of drawing character, and even of constructing a story.’
=The Sketch.=—‘Miss Dixon’s style excels in delicate vignettes, full of
suggestion, and marked, above all, by that artistic restraint which is
such an agreeable contrast to the fluency of the average woman-novel.’
=St. James’s Gazette.=—‘Miss Hepworth Dixon knows how to write.... She
can say what she wants to say in a sound, clear style, which (especially
in the descriptive passages) is occasionally very felicitous and
expressive. Altogether, _A Modern Woman_ is a work which will better
repay reading than most of the novels of the season.’
=Illustrated London News.=—‘A story of which so much can truthfully be
said is a contribution to art as well as to the circulating library, a
conjunction which, in these days of British fiction, is surprising.’
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A SELF-DENYING ORDINANCE
BY M. HAMILTON
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Athenæum.=—‘The characters are exceptionally distinct, the movement
is brisk, and the dialogue is natural and convincing.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=—‘Joanna Conway is on distinctly new lines, and
it has given us pleasure to follow her spicy, attractive personality
through all the phases of her carefully, finely-depicted evolution.’
=The National Observer.=—‘A remarkably life-like picture of English
society. The author is a keen observer. The writing is above the
average.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘An excellent novel. Joanna Conway is one of the
most attractive figures in recent fiction. It is no small tribute to the
author’s skill that this simple country girl, without beauty or
accomplishments, is from first to last so winning a personality. The
book is full of excellent observation.’
=Black and White.=—‘Some pleasant hours may be passed in following the
fortunes of Joanna, the charming heroine of M. Hamilton’s _A
Self-Denying Ordinance_. The book is well written, and holds the
attention from start to finish. The characters are true to life.’
=The Methodist Times.=—‘The story retains its interest throughout. It
contains some vividly-drawn delineations of character.’
=Woman.=—‘Contains the finest, surest, subtlest character drawing that
England has had from a new writer for years and years past.’
=Public Opinion.=—‘A well written and fascinating novel. It is a clever
sketch of life in its different phases.... “Every personage strikes one
as being richly endowed with individuality.”’
=The Manchester Courier.=—‘A decided success. There are such women as
Joanna Conway in the world, though, unfortunately, not so many as are
required; but there are few writers of the present day who can do
justice to such a character, so poetical, and yet so practical.... There
is humour in the book: the scene is chiefly in Ireland, and who can
truly write of Ireland without humour? but the greatest charm is in the
wonderful tenderness, in the womanly chivalry which renders so true the
title of a self-denying ordinance.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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ELDER CONKLIN
BY FRANK HARRIS
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=—‘Ably conceived, and ably-written stories.... Mr. Frank
Harris has proved himself at once a subtle and effective writer of
fiction.’
=The National Observer.=—‘Mr. Harris’s work leaves on the mind a vivid
impression. All the stories in the volume are well written and admirably
constructed.’
=The Academy.=—‘Page after page glows with masterly invention, tender
pathos, excellent wit: attributes belonging to the magicians of fiction.
Its cleverness is often near akin to absolute genius; the dexterity of
the writer evokes not only surprises, but rare pleasure.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=—‘The characters are clearly defined and
combined with great skill; they breathe genuineness and truth. There is
force and pathos, too, in the story of Bancroft and Loo Conklin.’
=The Review of Reviews.=—‘There is a force and a charm, a vividness and
an originality about these tales which give them a high, if not the
highest, place in the literature of that kind which has been produced in
the last few years, Not only is there a genius in the presentation of
the human types which are described, but they display a closeness of
observation and a keenness of insight into the heart of things which
only those who have studied western civilisation in the making can
appreciate.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=—‘The stories are masterpieces. They grip like
life. And they live with one after, as living realities.’
=The Sketch.=—‘There is good workmanship in Mr. Harris’s volume, shows
not merely in the vigorous story-telling. The inner idea in the tales is
carefully wrought, and it will find a response among all readers who
love sincerity.’
=The Bookman.=—‘_Elder Conklin_ is a masterly picture of heroism and
paternal love, of rare intensity and refinement, co-existing with
capacities for hideous selfishness and cruelty.’
=The Glasgow Herald.=—‘Mr. Harris’s excellent stories may be heartily
recommended to all.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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AT THE GATE OF SAMARIA
BY W. J. LOCKE
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Times.=—‘In a sense this novel is belated, being a straggler from
the procession of books more or less directly concerned with the New
Woman. This is a pity, for it is perhaps the best of the novels that
have vindicated or mocked at that tiresome female.... Still it may be
allowed that here we meet with less cant, less rancour, less prurience,
less affectation of omniscience, more genuine philosophy, and a more
careful style and more real literary power than in any other novel of
the same school.’
=The Athenæum.=—‘The character-drawing is distinctly good. All the
personages stand out well defined with strongly marked individualities.’
=The Morning Post.=—‘Clytie is made undeniably sympathetic while the
author’s pictures of Bohemian life are bright and graphic.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=—‘The merit of the book lies in the description
of the life of Clytie Davenant (the heroine) as an artist in London, of
her friendship with Kent, her wooing by Thornton Hammerdyke, and the
struggles of her married life. All this is portrayed, not in the grand
style, but soberly, truthfully, and on the whole effectively.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘This clever and somewhat audacious story.... We
congratulate W. J. Locke, and shall be surprised if the reception
accorded this book is not such as to cause him to congratulate himself.’
=The Review of Reviews.=—‘Here is a tale of women’s life in London in
the present year, of varied societies, of a husband’s brutality, and of
a woman’s fidelity, told with restraint, power, and originality. It is
certainly one of the novels which mark a beginner out for attention.’
=Vanity Fair.=—‘After long course of flaccid, nerveless books that seem
to have no _raison d’être_, it is refreshing to find a well-written
novel whose characters seem “hewn from life,” and act as men and women
really act.’
=The Scotsman.=—‘The story never drags and can be read from end to end.
It seems to be a first work, and in its strength and vigour gives good
promise for the future. The workmanship is careful and conscientious,
while the characterisation is broad, human, and natural.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=—‘In depicting the friendship between Clytie
and Kent the author shows both power and subtlety, and may fairly claim
to have given us something new, for the portrayal of such a relationship
between a man and a woman standing on an equal intellectual level has
not been successfully attempted before.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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BY ROBERT HICHENS
AUTHOR OF “THE GREEN CARNATION”
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Saturday Review.=—‘The powerfully dramatic scene in the dancing
rooms at Cairo would alone make the book worth reading. The humour, too,
peculiar to himself is not lacking in Mr. Hichens’s novel. It is
undoubtedly an artistic success.’
=The Guardian.=—‘There is no possible doubt as to the cleverness of the
book. The scenes are exceeding powerful.’
=The Graphic.=—‘The story embodies a study of remarkable subtlety and
power, and the style is not only vivid and picturesque, but in those
passages of mixed emotion and reflection, which strike what is, perhaps,
the characteristic note of late nineteenth century prose literature, is
touched with something of a poetic charm.’
=The Standard.=—‘The setting of the book is vivid, and the effect of
silence well imagined, so that the strange little drama goes on, and the
reader watches it with an interest that does not suffer him to consider
its absurdity.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘It treats an original idea with no little skill,
and it is written with a distinction which gives Mr. Hichens a
conspicuous place amongst the younger story-tellers who are really
studious of English diction.... It is marked out with an imaginative
resource which has a welcome note of literature.’
=The Daily Graphic.=—‘A profoundly impressive study in psychology. The
descriptions of the shadier side of Egyptian life are fresh and vivid;
indeed, Mr. Hichens has a rare power of stimulating the reader’s
imagination until it fills in what no one can write, and thus helps to
create a vivid picture.’
=The Scotsman.=—‘It is no doubt a remarkable book. If it has almost none
of the humour of its predecessor (_The Green Carnation_), it is written
with the same brilliancy of style, and the same skill is shown in the
drawing of accessories. Mr. Hichens’s three characters never fail to be
interesting. They are presented with very considerable power, while the
background of Egyptian life and scenery is drawn with a sure hand.’
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A DRAMA IN DUTCH
BY ‘Z Z’
_In One Volume, price 6s._
=The Spectator.=—‘Several of his types are painted in with a fine
combination of breadth of effect and wealth of significant detail....
Certainly a book which has not merely cleverness, but real vitality.’
=The Speaker.=—‘A novel of such remarkable merit, and written with such
easy mastery of style. From first to last this striking and powerful
story maintains a high level of excellence, betokening no ’prentice
hand. It is a story teeming with humour and pathos, instinct with the
irony of human fate, and quick to apprehend the subtle twists and
inconsistencies of human character. Above all, it is deliciously
original ... and told with great spirit, humour, and dramatic vigour. A
vivid picture of a side of life upon which little light has been cast by
our novelists since Dickens laid down his pen.’
=The Morning Post.=—‘On the whole realistic; this presentment of Holland
in London has certain impressionist touches that are decidedly
effective.... All the tragedy of the book centres in the figure of Peter
van Eijk, a creation which says much for the author’s imaginative
powers.’
=The Daily Telegraph.=—‘A singular little novel, which has so undeniable
a power of its own.’ (Mr. W. L. COURTNEY.)
=The Globe.=—‘The literary treatment is fresh and impressive.... The
author shows skill in all its characterisations, his mastery of Dutch
idiosyncrasy being obviously complete.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘One does not care to put the book down till the
last page is turned.’
=The Westminster Gazette.=—‘Vivid in portraiture, vivacious in
manner.... The combination of close observation and grim sardonic humour
gives the book a decided charm....The pathetic figure of Peter is drawn
with a tenderness which indefinitely enlarges our impression of the
author’s dramatic possibilities.’
=The Weekly Sun.=—‘Has the great merit of introducing us to a new
world.... What a delightful creation Mrs. de Griendt is. Indeed, I
should personally have been glad if we had had more of her. Whenever she
appears on the stage she fills it with her presence, and you can see
her, hear her, watch her with fascination and incessant interest.... I
think the reader will agree with me that I have not exaggerated the
literary merit of this exquisitely-described scene.’ (T. P. O’CONNOR,
M.P.)
=The Review of Reviews.=—‘You will enjoy reading it.’
=The Glasgow Herald.=—‘A striking and amusing novel.... The author has a
pleasant gift of humour, and has shown distinct originality.’
=The Aberdeen Daily Free Press.=—‘In the publication of this and kindred
works, Mr. Heinemann is doing much to maintain the freshness and vigour
of our English fiction....He has seldom provided a pleasanter and yet
more bracing work than the _Drama_ now before us.... As a mere story it
will carry delight to even the most unthinking.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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MISS GRACE OF ALL SOULS’
BY W. E. TIREBUCK
_In One Volume, price 6s_.
=The Times.=—‘Since Mrs. Gaskell wrote her _Mary Barton_ we have seen no
more interesting novel on the condition of the working classes. Mr,
Tirebuck is thoroughly master of his subject.... A vivid and impressive
narrative of the great coal strike of a couple of years ago.’