=The Standard.=—‘A singularly powerful and picturesque piece of work, extraordinarily dramatic.... Taken altogether, _The Manxman_ cannot fail to enhance Mr. Hall Caine’s reputation. It is a most powerful book.’
=The Morning Post.=—‘If possible, Mr. Hall Caine’s work, _The Manxman_, is more marked by passion, power, and brilliant local colouring than its predecessors.... It has a grandeur as well as strength, and the picturesque features and customs of a delightful country are vividly painted.’
=The World.=—‘Over and above the absorbing interest of the story, which never flags, the book is full of strength, of vivid character sketches, and powerful word-painting, all told with a force and knowledge of local colour.’
=The Queen.=—‘_The Manxman_ is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable books of the century. It will be read and re-read, and take its place in the literary inheritance of the English-speaking nations.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=—‘_The Manxman_ is a contribution to literature, and the most fastidious critic would give in exchange for it a wilderness of that deciduous trash which our publishers call fiction.... It is not possible to part from _The Manxman_ with anything but a warm tribute of approval.’—EDMUND GOSSE.
=The Christian World.=—‘There is a great fascination in being present, as it were, at the birth of a classic; and a classic undoubtedly _The Manxman_ is... He who reads _The Manxman_ feels that he is reading a book which will be read and re-read by very many thousands with human tears and human laughter.’
=Mr. T. P. O’Connor, in the ‘Sun.’=—‘This is a very fine and great story—one of the finest and greatest of our time.... Mr. Hall Caine reaches heights which are attained only by the greatest masters of fiction.... I think of the great French writer, Stendhal, at the same moment as the great English writer.... In short, you feel what Mr. Howells said of Tolstoi, “This is not like life; it is life.”... He belongs to that small minority of the Great Elect of Literature.’
=The Scotsman.=—‘It is not too much to say that it is the most powerful story that has been written in the present generation.... The love of Pete, his simple-mindedness, his sufferings when he has lost Kate, are painted with a master-hand.... It is a work of genius.’