Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6_s_.
"'For Maimie's Sake' is a book that every one who has made
acquaintance with the stories signed by 'J. Arbuthnot Wilson' will
naturally take up with pleasure. Pleasurable anticipation soon
becomes interest, and this interest must rapidly grow into absorbed
attention. The humour throughout the first part of Mr. Allen's
story is delightful. The reader falls in love with laughing,
lovely, unconventional Maimie."--ACADEMY.
"This is a very remarkable book. Maimie is essentially human,
intensely womanly, and there is something so bewitching in her
childish ignorance, something so innocent in her wickedness, that
we can understand her friends' and her lovers' infatuation for
her.... There is power of a very high order in writing which can so
consistently, yet without the smallest effort, concentrate the
reader's attention on the sinner as apart from the sin. There is
not a character in the book which fails to interest us, and the
writing is, of its kind, faultless."--TIME.