=The St. James’s Gazette.=—‘A striking and highly dramatic piece of fiction.’
=The Literary World.=—‘The book abounds in pages of great force and beauty, and there is a touch of almost Homeric power in its massive and grand simplicity.’
=The Liverpool Post.=—‘Graphic, dramatic, pathetic, heroic, full of detail, crowded with incident and inspired by a noble purpose.’
=The Yorkshire Post.=—‘A book of lasting interest.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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=Mr. Gladstone writes=:—‘I congratulate you upon _The Scapegoat_ as a work of art, and especially upon the noble and skilfully drawn character of Israel.’
=Mr. Walter Besant, in ‘The Author.’=—‘Nearly every year there stands out a head and shoulders above its companions one work which promises to make the year memorable. This year a promise of lasting vitality is distinctly made by Mr. Hall Caine’s _Scapegoat_. It is a great book, great in conception and in execution; a strong book, strong in situation and in character; and a human book, human in its pathos, its terror, and its passion.’
=The Times.=—‘In our judgment it excels in dramatic force all the Author’s previous efforts. For grace and touching pathos Naomi is a character which any romancist in the world might be proud to have created, and the tale of her parents’ despair and hopes, and of her own development, confers upon _The Scapegoat_ a distinction which is matchless of its kind.’
=The Guardian.=—‘Mr. Hall Caine is undoubtedly master of a style which is peculiarly his own. He is in a way a Rembrandt among novelists. His figures, striking and powerful rather than beautiful, stand out, with the ruggedness of their features developed and accentuated, from a background of the deepest gloom.... Every sentence contains a thought, and every word of it is balanced and arranged to accumulate the intensity of its force.’
=The Athenæum.=—‘It is a delightful story to read.’
=The Academy.=—‘Israel ben Oliel is the third of a series of the most profoundly conceived characters in modern fiction.’
=The Saturday Review.=—‘This is the best novel which Mr. Caine has yet produced.’
=The Literary World.=—‘The lifelike renderings of the varied situations, the gradual changes in a noble character, hardened and lowered by the world’s cruel usage, and returning at last to its original grandeur, can only be fully appreciated by a perusal of the book as a whole.’