Chapter VIII: Part 8

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=The Times.=--‘All the stories are told by a man whose heart and soul are in his profession of literature.’

=The Athenæum.=--‘The appearance of _Terminations_ will in no way shake the general belief in Mr. Henry James’s accomplished touch and command of material. On the contrary, it confirms conclusions long since foregone, and will increase the respect of his readers.... With such passages of trenchant wit and sparkling observation, surely in his best manner, Mr. James ought to be as satisfied as his readers cannot fail to be.’

SOME WOMEN I HAVE KNOWN

BY MAARTEN MAARTENS

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=The Times.=--‘Maarten Maartens here shows himself a master of the short story, and more of a cosmopolitan than we had suspected.’

=The Academy.=--‘We have enjoyed the book, and we think it contains much excellent work. It has all the wit, the discretion, the worldliness of Mr. Anthony Hope’s social studies. And it has, in addition, a genuine cosmopolitanism rare enough in English fiction.’

=The Outlook.=--‘The women Mr. Maartens has known are various and interesting, and the episodes which he has chosen to depict are cleverly imagined.’

=The Scotsman.=--‘Mr. Maarten Maartens displays all his genius as a humorist, a story-teller, and a painter of talent.’

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THE DANCER IN YELLOW

BY W. E. NORRIS

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=The Guardian.=--‘A very clever and finished study of a dancer at one of the London theatres. We found the book very pleasant and refreshing, and laid it down with the wish that there were more like it.’

=The World.=--‘_The Dancer in Yellow_ takes us by surprise. The story is both tragic and pathetic.... We do not think he has written any more clever and skilful story than this one, and particular admiration is due to the byways and episodes of the narrative.’

THE WIDOWER

BY W. E. NORRIS

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=St. James’s Gazette.=--‘Mr. Norris’s new story is one of his best. There is always about his novels an atmosphere of able authorship ...and _The Widower_ is handled throughout in the perfect manner to which Mr. Norris’s readers are accustomed.’

=Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘There is distinction of all kinds in every paragraph, and the whole is worthy of the delicately-finished details. Mr. Norris is always delightfully witty, clever, and unfailing in delicacy and point of style and manner, breezily actual, and briskly passing along. In a word, he is charming.’

MARIETTA’S MARRIAGE

BY W. E. NORRIS

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=The Athenæum.=--‘A fluent style, a keen insight into certain types of human nature, a comprehensive and humorous view of modern society--these are gifts Mr. Norris has already displayed, and again exhibits in his present volume. From the first chapter to the last, the book runs smoothly and briskly, with natural dialogue and many a piquant situation.’

=The Daily News.=--‘Every character in the book is dexterously drawn. Mr. Norris’s book is interesting, often dramatic, and is the work of, if not a deep, a close and humorous observer of men and women.’

A VICTIM OF GOOD LUCK

BY W. E. NORRIS

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=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘It has not a dull page from first to last. Any one with normal health and taste can read a book like this with real pleasure.’

=The Spectator.=--‘The brightest and cleverest book which Mr. Norris has given us since he wrote _The Rogue_.

=The Saturday Review.=--‘Novels which are neither dull, unwholesome, morbid, nor disagreeable, are so rare in these days, that _A Victim of Good Luck_ ... ought to find a place in a book-box filled for the most part with light literature.... We think it will increase the reputation of an already very popular author.’

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THE COUNTESS RADNA

BY W. E. MORRIS

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=The Speaker.=--‘In style, skill in construction, and general “go,” it is worth a dozen ordinary novels.’

=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 Westminster Gazette.=--‘Mr. Norris writes throughout with much liveliness and force, saying now and then something that is worth remembering. And he sketches his minor characters with a firm touch.’

THE IMAGE BREAKERS

BY GERTRUDE DIX

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=The Outlook.=--‘We have here a book packed with thought, suggestive, sincere. The story is told supremely well. It has construction, it has atmosphere. The characters live, breathe, love, suffer. Everything is on the high plane of literature. It is a book of absorbing interest.’

A PROPHET OF THE REAL

BY ESTHER MILLER

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=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Miss Miller’s study is both striking and original. The young authoress knows how to tell her story, and her manner, the way in which she describes the emotions of her characters, is always adequate and often eloquent. She shows us the girl as she was in the days of her servitude, gives us all the illuminating details of her sordid existence; then she shows us the pathetic blossoming of the nipped bud under the influence of kindness, the transformation of the morbid girl into a beautiful and gracious woman. Miss Miller is really to be congratulated on her heroine. The study is interesting and faithful.’

THE GLOWWORM

BY MAY BATEMAN

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=The Academy.=--‘It has quite a character of its own; it has charm and it has feeling. The minor characters are all good, and there is a pleasant humour always at hand to relieve a story otherwise tragical enough.’

=Punch.=--‘A clever, well-written story.’

=Truth.=--‘As interesting as it is original.’

=The Morning Post.=--‘It is distinctly a fine piece of fiction, for the author can delineate character with precision and sympathy, and her style is admirably polished.’

=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Miss Bateman has given us a very careful and sympathetic story of the successive phases of a fine nature; the character is consistently developed with a tender compassion for the impracticable and appreciation for the beautiful. The authoress has, moreover, a fund of shrewd common-sense which, combined with keen observation and humour, makes her book both readable and entertaining.’

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GILLETTE’S MARRIAGE

BY MAMIE BOWLES

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=The Athenæum.=--‘This is an extraordinarily clever performance and will be found most absorbing. The characterisation is excellent, the dialogue natural and alive, the emotion poignant and real.’

=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘It is decidedly clever and human, and the brilliantly bold heroism of Gillette’s final act of self-sacrifice is effective. One must always admit its undeniable power.’

THE FALL OF LORD PADDOCKSLEA

BY LIONEL LANGTON

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=The World.=--‘A very clever and good-humoured _jeu d’esprit_. The talk is excellent, the atmosphere of worldliness and self-interest tempered by the very best manners and form, the verisimilitude of Lady Killiecrankie, are all much to be commended.’

=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Amusing snapshots of current political life.’

=The Westminster Gazette.=--‘A clever and ingenious story of political life, told with a touch of cynicism which is redeemed by a background of romance.’

=The Standard.=--‘Will no doubt be read with amusement by those who find delight in the personal journalism of the day, and have the curiosity to fit the characters to the originals. There is enough bright writing in the book to make it a pleasant companion.’

THE WHITE TERROR

BY FÉLIX GRAS

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=The Spectator.=--‘The fascination of _The Reds of the Midi_ and _The Terror_ is exerted with equal force and charm in their brilliant sequel, _The White Terror_. Few narratives in modern fiction are more thrilling. M. Gras has the gift of achieving the most vivid and poignant results by a method devoid of artifice or elaboration. The narrative is a masterpiece of simplicity and _naïveté_: a stirring and richly coloured recital.’

=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘The book is full of living pictures. The feverishness, the uncertainty, of everything and everybody are most powerfully brought out.’

THE TERROR

BY FÉLIX GRAS

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=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Those who shared Mr. Gladstone’s admiration for _The Reds of the Midi_ will renew it when they read _The Terror_. It is a stirring and vivid story, full of perilous and startling adventures, and without one interval of dulness.... It excites and absorbs the reader’s attention. The excitement grows with the development of the plot, and the incidents are told with much spirit.’

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BY BREAD ALONE

BY I. K. FRIEDMAN

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=The Spectator.=--‘A remarkably interesting, able, and right-minded study of the labour question in the United States. The employer, the capitalist, the “hands,” the Socialist, the Anarchist, the would-be Saviour of Society,--all are fully, sympathetically, and convincingly presented. There are powerful scenes in the book; there are characters that touch.’

=The Athenæum.=--‘There are descriptions which tell. There are remarkable scenes painted, as it were, with blood and fire. Man and machinery in grim revolt are portrayed, with hand-to-hand fights and many gruesome death-scenes.’

LOVE AND HIS MASK

BY MENIE MURIEL DOWIE

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=Literature.=--‘All of the many different kinds of novel readers will enjoy _Love and his Mask_.... The story is a refreshment from beginning to end. _Love and his Mask_ will be one of the most popular novels of the autumn season.’

=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘A delightful romance.’

=Punch.=--‘A very clever novel, brightly written.’

FOREST FOLK

BY JAMES PRIOR

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=The Spectator.=--‘We have no hesitation in welcoming _Forest Folk_ as one of the very best and most original novels of the year, and our only regret is that we have failed to proclaim the fact sooner. The characterisation is excellent, the narrative is crowded with exciting incident, and the author has, in addition to an eye for the picturesque, a quite peculiar gift for describing effects of light and colour.’

=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘Mr. Prior has a large knowledge and is a keen observer of nature; he is cunning in devising strong situations, dramatic in describing them. His are forest folk indeed, men and women of flesh and blood.’

TANGLED TRINITIES

BY DANIEL WOODROFFE

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=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘Full of live people, whom one remembers long. The whole book is charming.’

=The Illustrated London News.=--‘Mr. Woodroffe writes with admirable clearness, picturesqueness, and restraint; he has an eye for character, and a grip of tragic possibilities. It is a moving story, and stamps the author as one of the few real artists who are now writing English fiction.’

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GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO’S NOVELS

=W. L. Courtney in the Daily Telegraph.=--_D’Annunzio is one of the great artistic energies of the age. He is the incarnation of the Latin genius just as Rudyard Kipling is the incarnation of the Anglo-Saxon genius. He has invented new harmonies of prose._

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THE FLAME OF LIFE

=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘A work of genius, unique, astounding. There are passages that sweep one headlong, and the whole leaves an indelible impression.’

=The Standard.=--‘The pages are rich in symbolic imagery, in beautiful word-pictures of Venice, and are saturated by the spirit of the Renaissance in its most luxurious form.’

THE CHILD OF PLEASURE

=The Academy.=--’ ... Clever, subtle, to the point of genius.’

=The Daily Mail.=--‘A powerful study of passion, masterly of its kind.’

=The Daily Graphic.=--‘The poetic beauty and richness of the language make it a sensuous, glowing poem in prose.’

=The Scotsman.=--‘The strength of the book lies in the intensity with which the writer brings out the pleasures and pains of his creatures.’

THE VICTIM

=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘No word but “genius” will fit his analysis of the mental history of the faithless husband.’

=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘The book contains many descriptive passages of rare beauty--passages which by themselves are lovely little prose lyrics.... It is a self-revelation; the revelation of the sort of self that D’Annunzio delineates with a skill and knowledge so extraordinary. The soul of the man, raw, bruised, bleeding, is always before us.’

THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH

=The Pall Mall Gazette.=--‘A masterpiece. The story holds and haunts one. Unequalled even by the great French contemporary whom, in his realism, D’Annunzio most resembles, is the account of the pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin by the sick, deformed, and afflicted. It is a great prose poem, that, of its kind, cannot be surpassed. Every detail of the scene is brought before us in a series of word-pictures of wonderful power and vivid colouring, and the ever-recurring refrain _Viva Maria! Maria Evviva!_ rings in our ears as we lay down the book. It is the work of a master, whose genius is beyond dispute.’

THE VIRGINS OF THE ROCKS

=The Daily Chronicle.=--‘He writes beautifully, and this book, by the way, is most admirably translated. The picture he presents of these three princesses in their sun-baked, mouldering, sleepy palace is, as we look back upon it, strangely impressive and even haunting.’

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