A Desperate VoyageKnight, E. F. (Edward Frederick)
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A Desperate Voyage
Knight, E. F. (Edward Frederick)
Lawyers -- Fiction; Pirates -- Fiction
"Written with singular sympathy, earnestness, and gentle humour.
The scene is laid on the Cornish coast, and Mr. Harris paints for
us the splendours of that gorgeous seascape in the manner of one
who feels to the full its peculiar fascination, and to whom the
character of the dwellers on its shore appeals with a familiar
charm. The delicate and precious aroma of romance perfumes every
page of 'Saint Porth,' and lends to this homely, unpretentious tale
a value and an interest that are too often lacking in novels of a
more ambitious scope."--_Speaker._
"Of the many efforts which writers have made during recent years to
portray various phases of Cornish life, this, to our mind,
represents one of the most successful."--_West Briton._
"However crowded the novel market may be, there is always room for
such refreshing little idylls as 'Saint Porth'--a simple tale,
simply told in delightfully breezy style."--_Birmingham Gazette._
Paradise Row.
Paradise Row, and some of its Inhabitants. By W. J. WINTLE. A series of
powerfully painted sketches of North Country life. 240 pages, crown 8vo,
cloth, gilt top, 3s. 6d.
"To adequately express the power and the pathos of these simply
told sketches, is quite beyond the scope of a review, for they
rouse all that is best and all that is most sacred in our common
humanity, making us feel more than the grandest rhetoric could, the
brotherhood of man. Some of the characters are real heroes, and one
rises from the perusal of the book with a greater respect for the
men who devote their lives to Christian work in the noisome dens of
our populous places, and with a large hope for the ultimate
redemption of mankind."--_North British Daily Mail._
"This is a volume of sketches of North Country life, very
vigorously drawn, and full of pathos well relieved with humour. It
shows throughout a large power of sympathy and great breadth of
thought."--_Spectator._
"We commend this book as both literature and life. Those who wish
to know how the poor live and love cannot do better than read
'Paradise Row.'"--_Methodist Times._
"The work of a deep thinker and a cultured writer."--_Black and
White._
Butterfly Ballads.
Butterfly Ballads and Stories in Rhyme. By HELEN ATTERIDGE. With
Sixty-five Illustrations by GORDON BROWNE, LOUIS WAIN, H. R. MILLAR, and
others. 142 pages, foolscap 4to, designed cover, cloth gilt, gilt edges,
3s. 6d.
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