"Seldom does one come upon so companionable a volume of reminiscences ... the author has good materials galore and presents them with so kindly a humor that one never wearies of his chatty history ... the whole volume is genial in spirit and eminently readable."--_Chicago Record-Herald._ "Deserves to rank high in the literature of American autobiography, even though that literature boasts the masterpiece of Benjamin Franklin."--_San Francisco Argonaut._ WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S JOSEPH VANCE A touching story, yet full of humor, of lifelong love and heroic sacrifice. While the scene is mostly in and near the London of the fifties, there are some telling glimpses of Italy, where the author lives much of the time. "The book of the last decade; the best thing in fiction since Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy; must take its place as the first great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century."--Lewis Melville in _New York Times Saturday Review_. "If the reader likes both 'David Copperfield' and 'Peter Ibbetson,' he can find the two books in this one."--_The Independent._ WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S ALICE-FOR-SHORT This might paradoxically be called a genial ghost-and-murder story, yet humor and humanity again dominate, and the most striking element is the touching love story of an unsuccessful man. The reappearance in Nineteenth Century London of the long-buried past, and a remarkable case of suspended memory, give the dramatic background. "Really worth reading and praising ... will be hailed as a masterpiece. If any writer of the present era is read a half century hence, a quarter century, or even a decade, that writer is William De Morgan."--_Boston Transcript._ "It is the Victorian age itself that speaks in those rich, interesting, over-crowded books.... Will be remembered as Dickens' novels are remembered."--_Springfield Republican._ WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S SOMEHOW GOOD The purpose and feeling of this novel are intense, yet it is all mellowed by humor, and it contains perhaps the author's freshest and most sympathetic story of young love. Throughout its pages the "God be praised evil has turned to good" of the old Major rings like a trumpet call of hope. This story of to-day tells of a triumph of courage and devotion. "A book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any in the range of fiction."--_The Nation._ "Our older novelists (Dickens and Thackeray) will have to look to their laurels, for the new one is fast proving himself their equal. A higher quality of enjoyment than is derivable from the work of any other novelist now living and active in either England or America."--_The Dial._ WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S IT NEVER CAN HAPPEN AGAIN