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A new Edition, with additions, of TALES AND CONFESSIONS.
This work is supposed by eminent critics to be his _chef d'oeuvre_. The original edition, it will be recollected, (although not containing, like the present, any of the later efforts of his pen), was pronounced by the London Reviewers to be "the most extraordinary work of fiction that has for many years issued from the press."
"Mr. Ritchie is by far our best writer of romantic and imaginary Tales," was the _dictum_ of the Literary Gazette on another occasion; and the Atlas pronounces him to be "the Scott of the short, picturesque, bold, and dramatic story."
"The power of fascinating the reader, of chaining him down, as it were, while his fancy is tormented by terrible imaginings, is the principal characteristic of Mr. Ritchie's fiction."--_London Weekly Review._