The Mystery of the Clasped Hands: A NovelBoothby, Guy
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The Mystery of the Clasped Hands: A Novel
Boothby, Guy
Detective and mystery stories; Fiction
“A restful, sympathetic, domestic story, full of tender pathos,
excellent character drawing, and genuine, lovable human nature--a story
to be read, not once, but again and again.”--_London Daily Mail_.
Fidelis.
“The original flavor of Ada Cambridge is not lost but enriched by being
ingrafted on a sturdy stock. Her pictures of Australia and of rural
England are as attractive as ever, her story better than ever.”--_New
York Evening Post_.
My Guardian.
“A story which will, from first to last, enlist the sympathies of the
reader by its simplicity of style and fresh, genuine feeling.... The
author is _au fait_ at the delineation of character.”--_Boston
Transcript_.
The Three Miss Kings.
“An exceedingly strong novel. It is an Australian story, teeming with a
certain calmness of emotional power that finds expression in a continual
outflow of living thought and feeling.”--_Boston Times_.
Not All in Vain.
“A worthy companion to the best of the author’s former efforts, and in
some respects superior to any of them.”--_Detroit Free Press_.
A Marriage Ceremony.
“Highly original in conception, its action graceful though rapid, and
its characters sparkling with that life and sprightliness that have made
their author rank as a peer of delineators.”--_Baltimore American_.
A Little Minx.
“A thoroughly charming novel, which is just the finest bit of work its
author has yet accomplished.”--_Baltimore American_.
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Garthowen: A Welsh Idyl.
“Wales has long waited for her novelist, but he seems to have come at
last in the person of Mr. Allen Raine, who has at once proved himself a
worthy interpreter and exponent of the romantic spirit of his
country.”--_London Daily Mail_.
By Berwen Banks.
“Mr. Raine enters into the lives and traditions of the people, and
herein lies the charm of his stories.”--_Chicago Tribune_.
“Interesting from the beginning, and grows more so as it
proceeds.”--_San Francisco Bulletin_.
“It has the same grace of style, strength of description, and dainty
sweetness of its predecessors.”--_Boston Saturday Evening Gazette_.
Torn Sails.
“It is a little idyl of humble life and enduring love, laid bare before
us, very real and pure, which in its telling shows us some strong points
of Welsh character--the pride, the hasty temper, the quick dying out of
wrath.... We call this a well-written story, interesting alike through
its romance and its glimpses into another life than ours.”--_Detroit
Free Press_.
“Allen Raine’s work is in the right direction and worthy of all
honor.”--_Boston Budget_.
Mifanwy: A Welsh Singer.
“Simple in all its situations, the story is worked up in that touching
and quaint strain which never grows wearisome no matter how often the
lights and shadows of love are introduced. It rings true, and does not
tax the imagination.”--_Boston Herald_.
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