full of brains and vigour may unhesitatingly enter _Miss Grace of All
Souls’_ upon his list of books worthy to be perused.... Mr. Tirebuck,
not content with providing “Grace” for our admiration, has made another
claim upon our love by presenting us to Nance Ockleshaw. For her sake
alone _Miss Grace of All Souls’_ should be read, and we hope that the
novel will make its way into many a home, there to be considered with
all the care that is due to it.’
=The World.=—‘The most remarkable contribution made by fiction to the
history of the working classes since _Mary Barton_, and it has a wider
range and import of deeper gravity. It appeals directly to the
thoughtful among readers, those who care to learn, on the object-lesson
plan, the facts and aspects of life among the multitudes, with whom they
are brought into actual contact. The girl who is its central figure is
an original and very attractive character.’
=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘An uncommonly well-told story, interesting from
first to last. Mr. Tirebuck has drawn a truly delightful character in
the miner’s wife; indeed, the whole family might well have been sketched
straight from the life. It is difficult to make a work of fiction at
once instructive and entertaining, but Mr. Tirebuck has done it in _Miss
Grace of All Souls’_.’
=The Pall Mall Gazette.=—‘An admirable piece of work. Here is realism in
its proper proportions: the rude, harsh, Methody life of the northern
miner engraved in all its essentials. Mr. Tirebuck manages to illustrate
the conditions of miners’ lives for us with complete fidelity. Not a
touch of the humour, the pathos, the tragedy, the grime, the sin, and
the ideals is lacking.... Mr. Tirebuck has done his work to perfection.
The story is not a moral tract, but a work of art of great
significance.’
=The British Weekly.=—‘Mr. Tirebuck is a practised and powerful
novelist, and in this story he has taken us right inside the heart of
the poor. His description of the collier’s wife is wonderful work.’
=The Manchester Guardian.=—‘As a picture of working men and women,
instinct as it is with knowledge, sympathy, passion, and conviction, we
have seldom, if ever, read anything so good.’
=The Manchester Courier.=—‘The character of Miss Grace reminds the
reader of the heroine of Charles Kingsley’s _Westward Ho_.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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=The Athenæum.=—‘Told with a force and directness that hold the reader’s
attention throughout.... A stirring and interesting novel.’
=The Academy.=—‘As a study of character, the work is admirable.’
=The Saturday Review.=—‘A finely conceived study. The book is true
without being sordid—realistic in the better meaning of the word; and we
have read it with the greatest interest and some stirrings of emotion.’
=The National Observer.=—‘The strong and true spirit of the husband
gives an ennobling study of humanity worth many plots. Miss Sergeant has
risen to her earlier level in this book, a fine study of character, and
it is only just to say that it is also strong in detail.’
=The World.=—‘A work to which the much-used adjective “beautiful” may be
applied with full intention and strict justice.‘
=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘Miss Sergeant has given her best matter, treated
in her best manner.’
=The Daily News.=—‘A moving story. In the delineation of the softening
of the man’s spirit, and of the mental struggles by which he reaches to
forgiveness of his wife, Miss Sergeant shows a fine imagination. This is
the best book of Miss Sergeant’s that has come under our notice for some
time.’
=The Globe.=—‘Miss Sergeant follows her hero with a rare grasp of
descriptive detail. The concluding chapters of the book reach a high
level of pathos, dignity, and convincing humanity.’
=Black and White.=—‘Gideon Blake is a fine creation and the record of
his devotion to the unworthy Emmy, an his attempted expiation of her
sins, is forcibly wrought. The closing tragedy, simply treated, is
impressive.’
=The Literary World.=—‘The story is well put together, and has points of
more than passing interest and importance.’
=The Scotsman.=—‘It is in the development of the great theme of a man’s
undying constancy to his erring partner, and his eventual forgiveness of
her offence, that the author rises to a height of true dramatic power
seldom attained in the modern novel. On its merits the story is worthy
of a high place in contemporary fiction.’
=Birmingham Daily Post.=—‘The character of Gideon Blake, the intense and
strong-minded husband of the fragile Emmy, is a fine creation, based on
the harder types of moral grandeur.’
=Bradford Observer.=—‘The tale is sincerely and touchingly written. Its
characters are veritable flesh and blood.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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Transcriber’s Note
Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and
are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.
The following issues should be noted, along with the resolutions.
31.14 I be seein’ to[’ / ’]im Misplaced.
104.13 stammered[, he/he ,] in a low sort of growl Misplaced.
163.21 from time to time[.] Added.
206.15 The plumber’s wife ejaculated[,] Added.
ad.1 The or[i]ginality of the book Inserted.