“Mr. Snaith has given us a romance that for terse, pregnant phrasing, exceptional character, and recurring and vivid depiction of dramatic situation, is the best thing of its kind we remember to have seen for a long time.”—Observer.

“Assuredly he has never written anything more fresh, more simple, more alluring or more artistically perfect.”—Daily Mail.

“An excellent novel.... A piece of serious and admirable work.... Not unworthy of a place with George Eliot’s ‘Adam Bede’ and ‘Mill on the Floss.’”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“The author deals with admirable taste and tact with the situation.... The story is one of high merit from beginning to end.”—Scotsman.

“It is very well told.... The novel is exciting, and preserves its interest to the end.... Excellent story.”—Athenæum.

“Has much to commend it to novel-readers. A clever plot; well-drawn characters—such are the leading features of a novel by which the reputation of its much-regretted writer is fully sustained to the last.”—World.

“The author has succeeded in making his story intensely interesting.... One of the very best adventure stories we have had for a long time past.”—Speaker.

“‘Mistress Dorothy Marvin,’ most delightful and winsome of women, and one of the freshest and most unhackneyed heroines whose acquaintance we have had the pleasure of making for a very considerable period.... Mr. Snaith has a great gift of observation, and his book is a remarkable picture of the age it is intended to depict.”—World.

“No one who begins it will lay it down before the end, it is so extremely well carried on from adventure to adventure.”—Saturday Review.

“He has related the adventures of a set of rogues ... with so pleasant a tongue and in such attractive fashion that it is impossible for mere flesh and blood to resist them. His set of rogues have won our entire sympathy, and his narrative our hearty approval.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“Another capital story.... Strongly recommended. Stirring tale this, without a dull chapter in it, and just enough human sentiment in it to soften down the roguery.... Let the honest reader procure the book.”—Punch.

“Mr. Benson has written an interesting and truly human book. His range is much wider than it was; his character-drawing has gained in depth, delicacy, and precision; while the sparkling dialogue which we enjoyed in ‘Dodo’ has lost none of its old brilliancy.”—Daily Telegraph.

“A very remarkable novel, well thought out, well sustained, and inspired from first to last.”—National Observer.

“Mr. Burgin has just scored a second shining success with ‘Tomalyn’s Quest,’ a tale of the keenest interest.”—Daily Telegraph.

“Mr. Alden has the true gift of humour.... It is impossible to read the collection of short stories without genuine enjoyment.”—Times.

“The love interest of ‘Ravenstone’ is twofold, and is admirably sustained throughout this bright, vigorous, and refreshing story.”—Daily Telegraph.

Mr. Gladstone writes: “Pray accept my thanks.... I was so imprudent as to open it at once, and since that act have found great difficulty in laying it down.”

“‘The Limb’ is unquestionably one of the most fascinating books of the season.”—Birmingham Daily Gazette.

“A capital story, and Mrs. Roma White tells it with a delicate humour and a spontaneous brilliancy as rare as they are delightful. ‘A Stolen Mask’ is a novel that stands high above the average, and can be strongly recommended. It is a long time since we have come across anything so thoroughly fresh and bright.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“Is an extremely psychological study.”—Times.

“It is a very amusing novel, full of bright satire directed against the new woman and similar objects.”—Speaker.

“A delightfully humorous sketch, full of the purest fun, and irresistibly laughable.”—Saturday Review.

“We commend to the notice of any one wanting a good laugh ‘My Laughing Philosopher,’ whose varied character-sketches amply prove Mr. Eden Phillpotts to be endowed with those two excellent gifts of humour and imagination.”—Spectator.

“The book will be welcome to every one who likes a book from which a man can get a good laugh.”—Scotsman.

“Plot and Incident in this present story are alike remarkable ... altogether we heartily commend ‘For Love of Prue’ as a sensible, humorous, and thoroughly wholesome book.”—Speaker.

“A bright, buoyant, and bustling story, with plenty of local colour derived from the scenery and the society, black and white, of a West Indian plantation.”—Times.