"Of all the novels that have come out of European battlefields there is probably none of such scope, such penetrating analysis and such completely spiritual quality as Hugh Walpole’s _Dark Forest_. It is many novels in one.... It is instinct with the sense of spiritual adventure. It is young, finely emotional, stamped with the consciousness of beauty and infinity, of heroism and horror, love of life and the vision of death."--_Eleanore Kellogg, in The Chicago Evening Post_. "At last there issues a novel with qualities of greatness and the promise of endurance. Hugh Walpole’s _Dark Forest_ should, indeed, as a work of literary art, easily survive the terror and the turmoil."--_New York World_. "Dostoievsky compressed within a few pages. A remarkable book indeed--beyond doubt the most notable novel inspired by the war."--_New York Tribune_. "_The Dark Forest_ is the first fine story product of a high order of creative art we have had from the European war."--_Boston Herald_. "The very spirit of Russia is here. This is unusual. Walpole appears to have become gifted in a few months with the true Russian literary method. Its magic is his."--_Boston Transcript_. "It is a story of sustained power; tragic import and impress, and careless disregard of western conventions. The rapt mysticism and unselfish devotion of the heroine; the downright, uncompromising materialism of her Russian lovers; the pathetic appeal of Trenchard’s loyalty, and the situation finally developed by the heroine’s untimely taking off--these, in connection with the continually recurring episodes of grim war, afford large opportunity for originality of treatment and characteristic, forceful dramatism."--_Philadelphia North American_. "Such a novel needed the war for its background. It needed the war for its origin. It could only have been planned on the battle line. It could be written for and appreciated by only such an audience as has been prepared by the melancholy of catastrophe. War’s blood is in it, war’s nerves and sinews. It is the very soul, upheaved, bereft, of war. It is the one great romance that has come from a world of armies."--_New York Evening Sun_. "_The Dark Forest_ is a novel of extraordinary beauty and power.... It is a work of art, unqualifiedly a great book."--_Review of Reviews_. "Hugh Walpole’s _The Dark Forest_ is the best story yet written about the war that we have read."--_New York Globe_. THE GREEN MIRROR The title of _The Green Mirror_ is symbolic. In the drawing-room of the London house of the Trenchards, not far from Westminster Abbey, it represented the past and the present of a great and typical English family.