"'His Little Mother' is the story of a sister's self-sacrifice from
her childhood until her early death, worn out in her brother's and
his children's service. It is a pathetic story as the author tells
it. The beauty of the girl's devotion is described with many tender
touches, and the question of short-sighted though loving foolishness
is kept in the background. The volume is written in a pleasant
informal manner, and contains many tender generous thoughts, and not
a few practical ones. It is a book that will be read with interest,
and that cannot be lightly forgotten."--_St. James's Gazette_.
LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, LIMITED.
EDNA LYALL'S NOVELS
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DONOVAN: A MODERN ENGLISHMAN.
"This is a very admirable work. The reader is from the first carried
away by the gallant unconventionality of its author. 'Donovan' is
a very excellent novel; but it is something more and better. It
should do as much good as the best sermon ever written or delivered
extempore. The story is told with a grand simplicity, an unconscious
poetry of eloquence which stirs the very depths of the heart. One of
the main excellencies of this novel is the delicacy of touch with
which the author shows her most delightful characters to be after all
human beings, and not angels before their time."--_Standard_.
WE TWO.
"There is artistic realism both in the conception and the delineation
of the personages; the action and interest are unflaggingly sustained
from first to last, and the book is pervaded by an atmosphere of
elevated, earnest thought."--_Scotsman_.
IN THE GOLDEN DAYS.
"Miss Lyall has given us a vigorous study of such life and character
as are really worth reading about. The central figure of her story is
Algernon Sydney; and this figure she invests with a singular dignity
and power. He always appears with effect, but no liberties are taken
with the facts of his life.'"--_Spectator_.
KNIGHT-ERRANT.
"The plot, and, indeed, the whole story, is gracefully fresh and very
charming; there is a wide humanity in the book that cannot fail to
accomplish its author's purpose."--_Literary World_.
WON BY WAITING.
"The Dean's daughters are perfectly real characters--the learned
Cornelia especially;--the little Impulsive French heroine, who
endures their cold hospitality and at last wins their affection, is
thoroughly charming; while throughout the book there runs a golden
thread of pure brotherly and sisterly love, which pleasantly reminds
us that the making and marring of marriage is not, after all, the sum
total of real life."--_Academy_.
A HARDY NORSEMAN.
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