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_With Eight Full-page Half-tone Illustrations on Art Paper by_ LEONARD LINSDELL
The name of Guy Boothby is one to conjure with. In this fine tissue of romance and realism, we have a wide range both in scenery and in incident. The invention of “Velvet Coat” as a distinctive sobriquet is an original idea, and whether in an English country mansion, on the St Petersburg pavements, or at Irkutsk, or in any other of the scenes so well painted, we are carried on from page to page with breathless expectation. All sorts and conditions of men, and of women too, cross the stage of this fresh drama, and it is full of exactly what delights the jaded reader—after turning from third-rate romance—namely the Unexpected.
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PHŒBE OF THE WHITE FARM [_Shortly_ ONE PRETTY MAID AND OTHERS CRIMSON LILIES BETTINA KINSAH THE LUCK OF A LOWLAND LADDIE A WOMAN DERELICT PARTNERS THREE A DAUGHTER OF ENGLAND
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=Spectator.=—“Miss May Crommelin brings to her task the pen of a trained writer. She has a wonderful eye for colour, and excels in seizing the dominant notes of street scenes or mountain landscapes.”
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=Bookman.=—“Miss May Crommelin at her best is very good indeed. At her worst she is at least up to the average.”
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