Ringan Gilhaize, or, The Covenanters Part 49

=_A Cry in the Night._= An exciting Detective Story. By ARNOLD GOLSWORTHY, Author of "Death and the Woman," "Hands in the Darkness," etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.

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=Scotsman.=--"The plot is bold, even to audacity; its development is always interesting, picturesque, and, towards the close, deeply pathetic; and the purpose and method of the writer are alike admirable."

=Eastern Morning News.=--"It is a clever book, splendidly written, and striking in its wonderful power, and keeping the reader interested....

The author has not failed in his effort to prove the case. The awful truth of its pages is borne home upon us as we read chapter after chapter. The book should have a good effect in certain quarters. One of the best features is the dividing line drawn most plainly between Socialism and Anarchism. To its author we tender our thanks, and predict a large sale."

=Daily Telegraph.=--"The hero is an interesting dreamer, absorbed in his schemes, which are his one weakness. To women, save when they can further the good of his cause, he is obdurate; in business, strong, energetic, and powerful. He is shown to us as the man with a master mind and one absorbing delusion, and as such is a pathetic figure. No one can dispute the prodigality and liveliness of the author's imagination; his plot teems with striking incidents."

=Vanity Fair.=--"The story tells itself very clearly in three hundred pages of very pleasant and entertaining reading. The men and women we meet are not the men and women we really come across in this world. So much the better for us. But we are delighted to read about them, for all that; and we prophesy success for Mr Ascher's book, particularly as he has taken the precaution of telling us that he is 'only in fun.'"

=Aberdeen Free Press.=--"A story in which there is not a dull page, nay, not even a dull line. The characters are well drawn, the incidents are novel and often astounding, and the language has a terseness and briskness that gives a character of vivacity to the story, so that the reader is never tired going on unravelling the tangled meshes of the intricate plot until he comes to the end. 'A Social Upheaval' is, indeed, a rattling good book."

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=_Miss Malevolent._= A Realistic Study. By the Author of "The Hypocrite." Crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.

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=Vanity Fair.=--"The hand that wrote the 'Silver King' has by no means lost its cunning in painting broad effects of light and shadow. The description of life in Broadmoor is, we fancy, done from actual observation. It is quite new." And the critic of =Black and White= sums it up pithily as "a story which holds our attention and interests us right from the first chapter. The book is as exciting as even a story of sensation has any need to be." Speaking of the scene of Mr Herman's drama, the beautiful county of Devons.h.i.+re, where the greater part of the story takes place, the =Manchester Courier= says: "The author's descriptive powers vividly portray the lovely spots by the winding Tamar, while the rich dialect of the district is so faithfully reproduced as to become not the least feature of an exciting tale."

=The Weekly Mercury.=--"Mr Henry Herman has carefully studied the little weaknesses of the great army of readers. Like a celebrated and much advertised medicine, he invariably 'touches the spot,' and hence the popularity of his works. His latest novel, 'The Sword of Fate,' contains all the essentials of a popular story. It is well written, sufficiently dramatic, full of life and incident, and above all, right triumphs over wrong. We must, too, congratulate the author upon the omission of all that is disagreeable or likely to offend the susceptibilities of the most delicate minded. It is a clean and healthy novel, a credit to the writer, and a pleasure to the reader.... These are quite capable of affording anyone a pleasant evening's reading, a remark which does not apply to the great majority of the modern novels."

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=St James's Gazette.=--"We have read the book from start to finish with unflagging interest--an interest, by the way, which derives nothing from the 'spice,' for though its t.i.tle may be suggestive of Zolaism, there is not a single pa.s.sage which is open to objection. The literary style is good."

=Truth.=--"I much prefer the ghastly story 'Seven Nights with Satan,' a very clever study of degeneration."

=London Morning.=--"The story told is a powerful one, evidently based upon close personal knowledge of the events, places, and persons which figure in it. A tragic note pervades it, but still there is lightness and wit in its manner which makes the book a very fascinating as well as eventful volume."

=Public Opinion.=--"Mr J. L. Owen has given a t.i.tle to his work which will cause many conjectures as to the nature of the story. Now, if we divulged what were the seven nights, we should be doing the author anything but a service--in fact, we should be giving the whole thing away; therefore, we will only state that the work is cleverly conceived, and carried out with great literary ability. There are numerous flashes of originality that lift the author above ordinary commonplace."

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Mr DOUGLAS SLADEN in =The Queen=.--"A remarkably clever book.... There is no disputing the ability with which the writer handles her subject. I say _her_ subject, because the minuteness of the touches, and the odd, forcible style in which this book is written, point to it being the work of a female hand. The book is an eminently readable one, and it is never dull for a minute."

=Daily Telegraph.=--"It is a study of one of the worst pa.s.sions which can ruin a lifetime and mar all human happiness--one of the worst, not because it is necessarily the strongest, but because of its singular effect in altering the complexion of things, transforming love into suspicion, and filling its victim with a petulant and unreasonable madness. All this Anthony Vert understands, and can describe with very uncommon power. The soul of a jealous woman is a.n.a.lysed with artistic completeness, and proved to be the petty, intolerant, half-insane thing it really is.... The plot is well conceived, and well carried out.

Anthony Vert may be congratulated on having written a very clever novel."

=The Monitor.=--"A wonderful piece of writing. The only modern parallel we can find is supplied in Mr F. C. Philip's 'As in a Looking Gla.s.s.'"

=World.=--"As the study of a jealous soul, 'The Green Pa.s.sion' is a success, and psychological students will be delighted with it.... The tragedy which forms the _denouement_ to this story is of such a nature as to preclude our doing more than remotely alluding to it, for he (or is it she?) has portrayed an 'exceedingly risky situation.'"

=Whitehall Review.=--"In 'The Green Pa.s.sion' the author traces with much ability, and not a little a.n.a.lytical insight, the progress of jealousy in the breast of a woman who is born with a very 'intense,' although not a very deep, nature.... There is in Mr Vert's work a certain tendency towards realism which has its due effect in making his characters real.

They are no loosely-built fancies of the journalistic brain, but portraits--almost snapshot portraits--of men and women of to-day."

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=Observer.=--"A story full of exciting adventure."

=Sat.u.r.day Review.=--"The plot is ingenious, and the style pleasant."

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=Critic.=--"It is a sensational novel with a dash of pseudo-scientific interest about it which is well calculated to attract the public. It is, moreover, well written and vigorous."

=Manchester Guardian.=--"Mr Kelly's fluent, rapid style makes his story of mysteries readable and amusing. His Irish servant, one of the princ.i.p.al characters, speaks a genuine Irish dialect--almost as rare in fiction as the imitation is common."

=St James's Budget.=--"Truly thrilling and dramatic, Mr Kelly's book is a cleverly written and absorbing romance. It concludes with a tremendous scene, in which a life-and-death struggle with a madman in the midst of a raging flood is the leading feature."

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=Punch.=--"'Madonna Mia' is genuinely interesting. All the stories are good; you are 'Scott free' to pick 'em where you like." (The Baron de B.

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=Weekly Sun.=--"Shows Mr Scott's st.u.r.dy character painting and love of picturesque adventure."

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