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"A wonderfully strong study of character; a powerful analysis of
those elements which go to make up the strength and weakness of a
man, which are at fierce warfare within the same breast; contending
against each other, as it were, the one to raise him to fame and
power, the other to drag him down to degradation and shame. Never
in the whole range of literature have we seen the struggle between
these forces for supremacy over the man more powerfully, more
realistically delineated than Mr. Caine pictures it."--_Boston Home
Journal._
_THE DEEMSTER. A Romance of the Isle of Man._ 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Hall Caine has already given us some very strong and fine work,
and 'The Deemster' is a story of unusual power.... Certain passages
and chapters have an intensely dramatic grasp, and hold the
fascinated reader with a force rarely excited nowadays in
literature."--_The Critic._
"One of the strongest novels which has appeared in many a
day."--_San Francisco Chronicle._
"Fascinates the mind like the gathering and bursting of a
storm."--_Illustrated London News._
"Deserves to be ranked among the remarkable novels of the
day."--_Chicago Times._
_THE BONDMAN._ New edition. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The welcome given to this story has cheered and touched me, but I
am conscious that, to win a reception so warm, such a book must
have had readers who brought to it as much as they took away.... I
have called my story a saga, merely because it follows the epic
method, and I must not claim for it at any point the weighty
responsibility of history, or serious obligations to the world of
fact. But it matters not to me what Icelanders may call 'The
Bondman,' if they will honor me by reading it in the open-hearted
spirit and with the free mind with which they are content to read
of Grettir and of his fights with the Troll."--_From the Author's
Preface._
_CAPT'N DAVY'S HONEYMOON. A Manx Yarn._ 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth,
$1.00.
"A new departure by this author. Unlike his previous works, this
little tale is almost wholly humorous, with, however, a current of
pathos underneath. It is not always that an author can succeed
equally well in tragedy and in comedy, but it looks as though Mr.
Hall Caine would be one of the exceptions."--_London Literary
World._
"It is pleasant to meet the author of 'The Deemster' in a brightly
humorous little story like this.... It shows the same observation
of Manx character, and much of the same artistic
skill."--_Philadelphia Times._
BOOKS BY MRS. EVERARD COTES (SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN).
_HIS HONOUR, AND A LADY._ Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
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