“Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “your very good health.”
= _ N O V E L S B Y D O R N F O R D Y A T E S _ =
“Berry is one of Heaven’s best gifts to man.”—_News Chronicle._
“Mirth-provoking upon every page.”—_Irish Times._
“It is, indeed, great fun all the way.”—_Daily Telegraph._
“Mr. Yates describes as well as ever the hair-raising adventures and idiotic situations in which the _Pleydell_ family are embroiled. I could go on reading about them for a very long time.”—_Punch._
“Like a cream puff—very light, but vastly delectable.”—_Glasgow Herald._
“To give Mr. Yates his due, he is expert in light banter. He can be strongly recommended to anyone who thinks that the British take themselves too seriously.”—_Punch._
“Behind Mr. Yates’s grace of style is real power. Successive scenes of real comedy and tragedy show an equal mastery.”—_Sheffield Independent._
“An unusual story marked by considerable powers of imagination.”—_Liverpool Post._
“The book deserves a host of readers. Extraordinarily powerful and intriguing.”—_Daily Telegraph._
“Be sure of this, there is a ‘Yates’ touch, an unexpected vivid phrase, a wonderful adjective, that gives colour to page after page.”—_The Sketch._
“The author is in his most humorous vein, the dialogue is brilliantly witty and clever, and humorous happenings and situations abound.”—_Time and Tide._
“Mr. Yates is an extraordinarily pleasant novelist. His flair for dramatic thrills and clever dialogue is extraordinary.”—_Liverpool Courier._
“There is not a dull page in the book.”—_The Times._
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“Dornford Yates holds his reader enthralled from cover to cover.”—_Daily Mail._
“The story goes with dash and brilliance.”—_Daily Telegraph._
“It is tremendously competent, exciting and quick moving.”—Frank Swinnerton in the _Evening News_.
“Amazing and breathless incidents . . . Mr. Yates at the top of his form . . . a most capital yarn.”—_The Sphere._
“Dornford Yates is a clever story-teller, and his skill is cleverly revealed in this adventurous romance.”—_Punch._
“For speed of action, ingenuity of situation and breathless excitement, I do not believe Mr. Yates has an equal to-day.”—_Punch._