“Mr. Yates describes as well as ever the hair-raising adventures and idiotic situations in which the _Pleydell_ family are embroiled. I could go on reading about them for a very long time.”—_Punch._ =THE BROTHER OF DAPHNE= “Like a cream puff—very light, but vastly delectable.”—_Glasgow Herald._ =THE COURTS OF IDLENESS= “To give Mr. Yates his due, he is expert in light banter. He can be strongly recommended to anyone who thinks that the British take themselves too seriously.”—_Punch._ =ANTHONY LYVEDE= “Behind Mr. Yates’s grace of style is real power. Successive scenes of real comedy and tragedy show an equal mastery.”—_Sheffield Independent._ =VALERIE FRENCH= “An unusual story marked by considerable powers of imagination.”—_Liverpool Post._ =AND FIVE WERE FOOLISH= “The book deserves a host of readers. Extraordinarily powerful and intriguing.”—_Daily Telegraph._ =AS OTHER MEN ARE= “Be sure of this, there is a ‘Yates’ touch, an unexpected vivid phrase, a wonderful adjective, that gives colour to page after page.”—_The Sketch._ =THE STOLEN MARCH= “The author is in his most humorous vein, the dialogue is brilliantly witty and clever, and humorous happenings and situations abound.”—_Time and Tide._ =MAIDEN STAKES= “Mr. Yates is an extraordinarily pleasant novelist. His flair for dramatic thrills and clever dialogue is extraordinary.”—_Liverpool Courier._ =BLIND CORNER= “There is not a dull page in the book.”—_The Times._ WARD, LOCK & CO., LTD., LONDON AND MELBOURNE = _ N O V E L S B Y D O R N F O R D Y A T E S _ = =PERISHABLE GOODS= “Dornford Yates holds his reader enthralled from cover to cover.”—_Daily Mail._ =BLOOD ROYAL= “The story goes with dash and brilliance.”—_Daily Telegraph._ =FIRE BELOW= “It is tremendously competent, exciting and quick moving.”—Frank Swinnerton in the _Evening News_. =SAFE CUSTODY= “Amazing and breathless incidents . . . Mr. Yates at the top of his form . . . a most capital yarn.”—_The Sphere._ =STORM MUSIC=