=Vanity Fair.=—‘The main thread of the story is powerful and pathetic; but there are lighter touches, wit and humour, and here and there what seem like shadows of people we have seen and known.... In a word, a book to buy, to read, and to enjoy.’ =Black and White.=—‘The social sketches, with which this little story of modern, literary, fashionable, and Bohemian London is full, are very cleverly touched in.’ =The Graphic.=—‘Miss Ella Hepworth Dixon has inherited no small share of her father’s literary gifts, and she adds to it a faculty of observation, and a constructive and narrative skill, which are of considerable promise.’ =The National Observer.=—‘She writes well, and shows not a little power of drawing character, and even of constructing a story.’ =The Sketch.=—‘Miss Dixon’s style excels in delicate vignettes, full of suggestion, and marked, above all, by that artistic restraint which is such an agreeable contrast to the fluency of the average woman-novel.’ =St. James’s Gazette.=—‘Miss Hepworth Dixon knows how to write.... She can say what she wants to say in a sound, clear style, which (especially in the descriptive passages) is occasionally very felicitous and expressive. Altogether, _A Modern Woman_ is a work which will better repay reading than most of the novels of the season.’ =Illustrated London News.=—‘A story of which so much can truthfully be said is a contribution to art as well as to the circulating library, a conjunction which, in these days of British fiction, is surprising.’ LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A SELF-DENYING ORDINANCE BY M. HAMILTON _In One Volume, price 6s._ =The Athenæum.=—‘The characters are exceptionally distinct, the movement is brisk, and the dialogue is natural and convincing.’ =The Pall Mall Gazette.=—‘Joanna Conway is on distinctly new lines, and it has given us pleasure to follow her spicy, attractive personality through all the phases of her carefully, finely-depicted evolution.’ =The National Observer.=—‘A remarkably life-like picture of English society. The author is a keen observer. The writing is above the average.’ =The Daily Chronicle.=—‘An excellent novel. Joanna Conway is one of the most attractive figures in recent fiction. It is no small tribute to the author’s skill that this simple country girl, without beauty or accomplishments, is from first to last so winning a personality. The book is full of excellent observation.’ =Black and White.=—‘Some pleasant hours may be passed in following the fortunes of Joanna, the charming heroine of M. Hamilton’s _A Self-Denying Ordinance_. The book is well written, and holds the attention from start to finish. The characters are true to life.’