"In all respects worthy of the hand that wrote 'The Channings' and 'East Lynne.' There is no lack of excitement to wile the reader on, and from the first to the last a well-planned story is sustained with admirable spirit and in a masterly style."--THE DAILY NEWS. 8. JOHNNY LUDLOW. +The First Series.+ _FIFTY-FIFTH THOUSAND._ "We regard these stories as almost perfect of their kind."--THE SPECTATOR. "Fresh, lively, vigorous, and full of clever dialogue, they will meet with a ready welcome. The Author is masterly in the skill with which she manages her successive dramas."--STANDARD. "It is an agreeable change to come upon a book like Johnny Ludlow."--SATURDAY REVIEW. "Vigour of description and a strong grasp of character."--ATHENÆUM. "The Author has given proof of a rarer dramatic instinct than we had suspected among our living writers of fiction."--NONCONFORMIST. "Tales full of interest."--VANITY FAIR. "Fresh, clear, simple, strong in purpose and in execution, these stories have won admiration as true works of inventive art. Without a single exception they maintain a powerful hold upon the mind of the reader, and keep his sympathies in a continued state of healthy excitement."--DAILY TELEGRAPH. 9. MILDRED ARKELL. _EIGHTIETH THOUSAND._ "Mrs. Henry Wood certainly possesses in a wholly exceptional degree the power of uniting the most startling incident of supernatural influence with a certain probability and naturalness which compels the most critical and sceptical reader, having once begun, to go on reading.... He finds himself conciliated by some bit of quiet picture, some accent of poetic tenderness, some sweet domestic touch telling of a heart exercised in the rarer experiences; and as he proceeds he wonders more and more at the manner in which the mystery, the criminality, the plotting, and the murdering reconciles itself with a quiet sense of the justice of things; and a great moral lesson is, after all, found to lie in the heart of all the turmoil and exciting scene-shifting. It is this which has earned for Mrs. Wood so high a place among popular novelists, and secured her admittance to homes from which the sensational novelists so-called are excluded."--THE NONCONFORMIST. 10. SAINT MARTIN'S EVE. _SEVENTY-SIXTH THOUSAND._ "A good novel."--THE SPECTATOR. "Mrs. Wood has spared no pains to accumulate the materials for a curiously thrilling story."--THE SATURDAY REVIEW. 11. TREVLYN HOLD. _Sixty-fifth Thousand._ "We cannot read a page of this work without discovering a graphic force of delineation which it would not be easy to surpass."--THE DAILY NEWS. 12. GEORGE CANTERBURY'S WILL. _SIXTY-FIFTH THOUSAND._ "The name of Mrs. Henry Wood has been familiar to novel-readers for many years, and her fame widens and strengthens with the increase in the number of her books."--THE MORNING POST. 13. THE RED COURT FARM. _EIGHTIETH THOUSAND._