England -- Social life and customs; Gambling -- Great Britain
_HOUSMAN, CLEMENCE._
THE UNKNOWN SEA. A Romance by Clemence Housman, Author of “The Were
Wolf.” Crown 8vo, art vellum, gold top. 6s.
_Literature._—“On the conception of Christian the author may be
congratulated. He is ideal without sentimentality, and his sacrifice
and death have the poignancy of reality, symbol though he is of the
world’s greatest idea.”
_Guardian._—“Decidedly powerful and effective. Its author has
certainly a spell by which, like the ancient mariner, he can force
people to listen to and accept his tale.”
_Pall Mall Gazette._—“The story is a powerful one, stirring the
imagination with vague suggestions of mystery, and compelling interest
throughout. For those who can appreciate fine writing, moreover, the
style itself will prove an added attraction, and will not only sustain
the reputation which Miss Housman has already made, but will also
enhance the lustre of the talented family of which she is a member.”
_St James’s Gazette._—“The qualities that commend this book are its
fitting impression of the supernatural, its studied and generally
successful use of words, and its appreciation of the beauty of visible
things. It achieves an absolute effect of beauty, an effect of a kind
extremely rare in English that is not verse. The book has beauty and
sense—not, thank Heaven, common sense!—in it, and is quite remote
from the common trash of the book market.”
_Nottingham Daily Guardian._—“‘The Unknown Sea’ is not a popular
novel; there is too much really fine work in it for that, but hardly
a page fails to indicate the author’s delicate methods and robust
individuality.”
_SINJOHN, JOHN._
JOCELYN. A Monte Carlo Story by John Sinjohn, Author of “From the Four
Winds.” Crown 8vo, art canvas. 6s.
_Daily Mail._—“The love, as love, is shown with such intensity that it
sets the reader’s heart athrob, and the Riviera setting is aglow with
colour and life.”
_Outlook._—“He has set it against a charmingly painted background
of warm Southern atmosphere and Mediterranean scenery, and he has
drawn, in the persons of the delightfully commonplace Mrs Travis and
Nielson—the polished cosmopolitan and professional gambler, with an
unsuspected strain of tenderness beneath his impassive exterior—two of
the best comedy characters that we have encountered in recent fiction.”
_Manchester Courier._—“A powerfully written story. The analysis
of character is good, and the depiction of life in the Riviera is
excellent.” _BURROW, C. K._
THE FIRE OF LIFE. A Novel by C. K. Burrow, Author of “Asteck’s
Madonna,” “The Way of the Wind,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth. 6s.
_St James’s Gazette._—“A clever story. The smoothly-written little
tale with its rather ambitious title is a real pleasure to read,
because it has a wholesome, manly tone about it, and the characters do
not appear to be bookmade but of real flesh and blood.”
_Saturday Review._—“A good, careful, full-blooded novel of a kind that
is not common nowadays.”
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