“It would be indeed difficult to overpraise the grace, the delicacy, and the humour with which the author has accomplished his task. It is all so piquantly fresh, so charmingly unconventional, that it carries one away with it from start to finish in a glow of pleasurable sentiment. Rarely, amidst all the floods of conventional fiction-spinning and latter-day psychological analysis, does one come across such a pure jet of romantic fancy as that with which Mr. Wells refreshes our spirits.” Pall Mall Gazette. “Enthusiastic we own that we are; no book could be more prodigal of honest delight, and its promise leaves hardly any literary accomplishment beyond the aspiration of its author.” Saturday Review. “A striking fantasia, wrought with infinite tact, charm, and wit.... The conversations are full of light and delicate (rather than full-bodied) wit, and it becomes sufficiently pungent at times; but underlying the sweet or acid wit, or even the pure fun (for fun abounds), there is a vein of seriousness and sadness which, with the beautiful descriptive miniatures scattered here and there, justify us in calling the story a piece of literature.” Referee. “So fresh and imaginative a piece of work, that Mr. Wells, we begin to think, is the new man in fiction. Not only the ingenuity of the story, but the logic of it is such that we know no writer since the author of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ who could show such amazing power in sustaining the illusion of truth under like conditions.” Scotsman. “The whole story is so delightfully coherent that, whether in the amusing or in the touching passages, it pleases always. So much that is clever, comical, tender, whimsical, and of healthy fancy.” * * * * * Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. IN THE VALLEY OF TOPHET. BY H. W. NEVINSON, AUTHOR OF “NEIGHBORS OF OURS.” Daily Chronicle. “Mr. Nevinson’s keenness and clearness of observation of his characters comes of his deep sympathy with them. Through the mirk and mire, the folly, the ignorance, and the superstition, he sees the good human stuff. Hence his humour has always in it something of pathos, and his pathos is just lightened by a touch of humour. He plumbs profound depths. He not infrequently brings a lump to the throat.” Athenæum.