Part 43 (1/2)

_MURRAY'S MAGAZINE_--”One of the best books which Mrs. Oliphant's fertile pen has within recent years produced.”

_WORLD_--”Mrs. Oliphant has written many novels, and many good ones; but if she has. .h.i.therto written one so good as _Kirsteen_, we have not read it.... It is the highest praise we can give, when we say that there are pa.s.sages in it which, as pictures of Scottish life and character, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to match out of Sir Walter's pages.”

_NATIONAL OBSERVER_--”Seldom, if ever, has Mrs. Oliphant done better than in _Kirsteen_.... There is humour, there is pathos, there is tragedy, there is even crime--in short, there is human life.”

JOYCE.

_GUARDIAN_--”It has seldom been our lot to fall in with so engrossing a story.”

A BELEAGUERED CITY.

_TIMES_--”The story is a powerful one and very original to boot.”

HESTER.

_ACADEMY_--”At her best, she is, with one or two exceptions, the best of living English novelists. She is at her best in _Hester_.”

HE THAT WILL NOT WHEN HE MAY.

_SCOTSMAN_--”The workmans.h.i.+p of the book is simply admirable.”

THE RAILWAY MAN AND HIS CHILDREN.

_ANTI-JACOBIN_--”An extremely interesting story, and a perfectly satisfactory achievement of literary art.”

_MORNING POST_--”Mrs. Oliphant has never written a simpler, and at the same time a better conceived story. An excellent example of pure and simple fiction, which is also of the deepest interest.”

THE MARRIAGE OF ELINOR.

_NATIONAL OBSERVER_--”In spite of yourself and of them, you become interested in uninteresting people, annoyed at their follies, and sympathetic with their trifling sorrows and joys. This is Mrs.

Oliphant's secret.”

SIR TOM.

_SAt.u.r.dAY REVIEW_--”Has the charm of style, the literary quality and flavour that never fail to please.”

Globe 8vo. 2s. each.

A SON OF THE SOIL.

THE CURATE IN CHARGE.

YOUNG MUSGRAVE.

THE WIZARD'S SON.

_SPECTATOR_--”We have read it twice, once in snippets, and once as a whole, and our interest has never flagged.”

A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN AND HIS FAMILY.

_ACADEMY_--”Never has her workmans.h.i.+p been surer, steadier, or more masterly.”