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MANCHESTER GUARDIAN._--"The author meets with a master's ease every
call that is made upon his resources, and the calls are neither few
nor light. The design, bold though it is, lies so well within his
compass as to suggest a reserve of strength rather than limitations.
And a style that is versatile but always distinguished, delicate
but always virile, terse but never obscure, is in a strong hand an
instrument for strong work. The pictures by A. Castaigne are worthy
of the text."
_GLASGOW HERALD._--"Dr. Weir Mitchell's story deserves nothing but
praise."
_SHEFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"There is plenty of movement, and the
interest culminates but never flags. It is quite the best picaresque
novel we have come across for a long time past.... The story could
hardly be bettered."
_GLASGOW DAILY MAIL._--"It is altogether a most entertaining
narrative, witty and humorous in its dialogue, exciting in its
incidents, and not without its pathetic side."
_DAILY CHRONICLE._--"Dr. Weir Mitchell is certainly to be
congratulated on the whole volume."
_Second Impression Now Ready_
Extra Crown 8vo. 6s.
ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN
_LITERATURE._--"A charming book.... If the delightful wilderness
which eventually develops into a garden occupies the foreground,
there is still room for much else--for children, husbands, guests,
gardeners, and governesses, all of which are treated in a very
entertaining manner."
_TIMES._--"A very bright little book--genial, humorous, perhaps a
little fantastic and wayward here and there, but full of bright
glimpses of nature and sprightly criticisms of life. Elizabeth is the
English wife of a German husband, who finds and makes for herself a
delightful retreat from the banalities of life in a German provincial
town by occupying and beautifying a deserted convent."
_SCOTSMAN._--"The garden in question is somewhere in Germany.... Its
owner found it a wilderness, has made it a paradise, and tells the
reader how. The book is charmingly written.... The people that appear
in it are almost as interesting as the flowers.... Altogether it is
a delightful book, of a quiet but strong interest, which no one who
loves plants and flowers ought to miss reading."
_ACADEMY._--"'I love my garden'--that is the first sentence, and
reading on, we find ourselves in the presence of a whimsical,
humorous, cultured, and very womanly woman, with a pleasant,
old-fashioned liking for homeliness and simplicity; with a wise
husband, three merry babes, aged five, four, and three, a few
friends, a gardener, an old German house to repose in, a garden to be
happy in, an agreeable literary gift, and a slight touch of cynicism.
Such is Elizabeth. The book is a quiet record of her life in her old
world retreat, her adventures among bulbs and seeds, the sayings of
her babies, and the discomfiture and rout of a New Woman visitor....
It is a charming book, and we should like to dally with it."
_GLASGOW HERALD._--"This book has to do with more than a German
garden, for the imaginary diary which it contains is really a
description, and a very charming and picturesque one, of life in a
north German country house."
_MANCHESTER GUARDIAN._--"No mere extracts could do justice to this
entirely delightful garden book."
_ATHENÆUM._--"We hope that Elizabeth will write more rambling and
delightful books."
_SPEAKER._--"Entirely delightful."
_OUTLOOK._--"The book is refreshingly good. It has a good deal of
stuff in it, and a great deal of affable and witty writing; and it
will bear reading more than once, which, in these days, is saying
much."
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THE LOVES
OF THE
LADY ARABELLA
By M. E. SEAWELL
_SPEAKER._--"A story told with so much spirit that the reader tingles
with suspense until the end is reached.... A very pleasant tale of
more than common merit."
_PALL MALL GAZETTE._--"It is short and excellent reading.... Old
Peter Hawkshaw, the Admiral, is a valuable creation, sometimes quite
'My Uncle Toby'.... The scene, when the narrator dines with him in
the cabin for the first time, is one of the most humorous in the
language, and stamps Lady Hawkshaw--albeit, she is not there--as one
of the wives of fiction in the category of Mrs. Proudie herself....
The interest is thoroughly sustained to the end.... Thoroughly
healthy and amusing."
_WORLD._--"Brisk and amusing throughout."
_SATURDAY REVIEW._--"A spirited romance.... It is the brightest tale
of the kind that we have read for a long time."
_DAILY MAIL._--"A robust and engaging eighteenth century romance."
_SCOTSMAN._--"The story possesses all the elements of a good-going
love romance, in which the wooing is not confined to the sterner sex;
while its flavour of the sea will secure it favour in novel-reading
quarters where anything approaching sentimentality or sermonizing
does not meet with much appreciation."
_MORNING POST._--"There is a spirit and evident enjoyment in the
telling of the story which is refreshing."
_ACADEMY._--"A brisk story of old naval days."
_SPECTATOR._--"Pleasant reading is furnished in _The Loves of the
Lady Arabella_."
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A
ROMANCE OF CANVAS TOWN
_AND OTHER STORIES_
By ROLF BOLDREWOOD
CONTENTS
A ROMANCE OF CANVAS TOWN
THE FENCING OF WANDAROONA: A RIVERINA REMINISCENCE
THE GOVERNESS OF THE POETS
OUR NEW COOK: A TALE OF THE TIMES
ANGELS UNAWARES
_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--"Eminently readable, being written in the breezy,
happy-go-lucky style which characterizes the more recent fictional
works of the author of that singularly earnest and impressive
romance, _Robbery under Arms_."
_DAILY MAIL._--"As pleasant as ever."
_GLASGOW HERALD._--"They will repay perusal."
_SCOTSMAN._--"A volume of five short stories by Mr. Rolf Boldrewood
is heartily welcome.... All are about Australia, and all are
excellent.... His shorter stories will enhance his popularity."
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THAT LITTLE CUTTY
_DR. BARRÈRE, ISABEL DYSART_
By MRS. OLIPHANT
AUTHOR OF "THE CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD," ETC., ETC.
_SATURDAY REVIEW._--"It has all her tenderness and homely humour, and
in the case of all three stories there is a good idea well worked
out."
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