“Original observation and a rare reticence of detail.” Daily Chronicle. “Miss Lynch has proved in previous work that she has at command the most precious of gifts, the gift of charm. These stories are all, more or less, interpenetrated by it. Nor is the working of it in us merely while we read. It recurs unbidden in the ‘sessions of sweet, silent thought.’” Vanity Fair. “Miss Hannah Lynch’s new volume, ‘Dr. Vermont’s Fantasy,’ is the finest piece of feminine literary work, take it all in all, that has been accomplished in Great Britain during the present generation. Miss Lynch belongs to no school; she has chosen the best models here, there, and everywhere, and formed her own style. I cannot say what model has been dearest to her; but the general effect is Greek--the massive dignity, the repose--with the exception of the story ‘Brases,’ which is supposed to be written by an excitable Frenchman--the cold simplicity keeping in check but never conquering the rich warm temperament of the Irish author.... Her matter in the average cheap and skilful hands would win immediate recognition, so abundant and full of interest is it.” Dundee Advertiser. “The climax, great because of its very simplicity, shows that the authoress has a very rare gift as a writer of fiction. In its entirety the collection offers not only something new, but something that will remain attractive. It might be the work of any one of the best French writers. Not that the style is copied. It is the work of one who has not only studied French fiction as a scholar, but who has herself marked and pondered over the life from which she has drawn her men and women.” Scotsman. “This writer’s work is distinguished among the host of similar productions that clamour for public attention to-day by being much stronger than the ruck. The pictures of life of to-day are recognisable ... they have no mawkishness in tone, and, while laying the shadows heavily in, do not forget that the prime office of the literary, as of the other arts, is to please. The skill they show in giving literary shape to the less obvious moods and phases of feeling that a present-day reader must recognise as peculiar to his own generation is remarkable; and there is not one of the stories that has not its own peculiar variation of this consistently maintained interest.” * * * * * Crown 8vo, 4s. 6d. net. IN THE HEART OF THE HILLS: A NEW ENGLAND STORY. BY SHERWIN CODY. Scotsman. “The tale is told in a simple, straightforward way, and the peace that is in the everlasting hills pervades and inspires it.” Glasgow Herald. “An extremely pretty and natural story quaintly and simply told, and has a rural atmosphere that is very alluring to the jaded palate.” Illustrated London News.