Part 14 (2/2)

_DAILY CHRONICLE._--”And even such as fail to understand, will very certainly enjoy--enjoy the sometimes gay and sometimes biting humour, the deft delineation, the fine quality of colour, the delicately-flavoured phrasing.”

_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--”The most finished studies which have appeared since some of the essays of Walter Pater.”

OPEN COUNTRY: A COMEDY WITH A STING.

_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--”_Open Country_ is a beautiful bit of work, a work that is inspired through and through with a genuine love for what is pure and beautiful. Mr. Hewlett's main figures have not only a wonderful charm in themselves, but they are n.o.ble, simple, and true-hearted creatures. Sanchia, the heroine, is a divine creation.”

_EVENING STANDARD._--”_Open Country_ is an important book and a fine novel.”

REST HARROW: A COMEDY OF RESOLUTION.

_DAILY NEWS._--”_Rest Harrow_ has not only the effect of providing an aesthetically logical conclusion to the motives of _Open Country_, but it throws back a radiant retrospective influence, enhancing the value of what has preceded it.... In many ways the best piece of work Mr. Hewlett has done.”

_PALL MALL GAZETTE._--”The present book certainly sustains the charm of _Open Country_ without any faltering of dramatic movement.”

THE STOOPING LADY.

_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--”A wondrously beautiful piece of fiction, gallant and romantic, a high treat for lovers of good reading.”

_WORLD._--”A rarely picturesque and beautiful production.”

_EVENING STANDARD._--”A story which fascinates him who reads.”

MRS. LANCELOT: A COMEDY OF a.s.sUMPTIONS.

_DAILY TELEGRAPH._--”The story, as a whole, sustains a lofty level of creative vigour, and is dignified, moreover, with something of the epic flavour, as the old order is seen breaking up under the advance of new ideas and revolutionary enthusiasms.... Among the best books that the present age is likely to produce.”

_DAILY GRAPHIC._--”The best work of its kind since Meredith.”

FOND ADVENTURES: TALES OF THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD.

_SPECTATOR._--”The materials for romance provided by this period (the Renaissance) are inexhaustibly rich, and Mr. Maurice Hewlett is admirably equipped for the task of reconst.i.tuting many of its phases.”

_EVENING STANDARD._--”The present volume is a rich mine of beauty. It contains four fine romantic tales.”

NEW CANTERBURY TALES.

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