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Page 9 - The following will be among the earlier Volumes of the series : — MARLOWE. Edited by HAVELOCK ELLIS. With a General Introduction by JA SYMONDS. MASSINGER. Edited by ARTHUR SYMONS. MIDDLETON. With an Introduction by AC SWINBURNE. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER (2 vols.).
Page 31 - Those who have read this singular story in the original need not be reminded of that supremely dramatic study of the man who lived two lives at once, even within himself. The reader's discovery of his double nature is one of the most cleverly managed of surprises, and Samuel Brohl's final dissolution of partnership with himself is a remarkable stroke of almost pathetic comedy.
Page 18 - is a masterpiece ; it is really a perfect work ; it has no fault, no weakness. It is a compact and harmonious whole.
Page 16 - CHARACTERISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRENCH ARTISTS. ' On subjects like those in his present work, Mr. Sala is at his best." — The Times. " This book is one of the most readable that has appeared for many a day. Few Englishmen know so much of old and modern Paris as Mr. Sala.
Page 13 - A very clever and entertaining series of social and satirical sketches, almost French in their point and vivacity.
Page 22 - Mr. HENRY JAMES on ZOLA'S NOVELS. "A novelist with a system, a passionate conviction, a great plan — incontestable attributes of M. Zola — is not now to be easily found in England or the United States, where the story-teller's art is almost exclusively feminine, is...
Page 326 - One is the inevitable decay which must precede an outburst of national energy; the other is the smug optimism, that fund of materialism, on which a nation lives, and which in truth represents the bulwarks wherewith civilisation defends itself against those sempiternal storms which, like atmospheric convulsions, by destroying, renew the tired life of man. And that Ashbourne Crescent, with its bright brass knockers, its white-capped maidservant, and spotless oilcloths, will in the dim future pass away...
Page 19 - A Mummer's Wife, in virtue of its vividness of presentation and real literary skill, may be regarded as a representative example of the work of a literary school that has of late years attracted to itself a good deal of notoriety."— Spectator. '"A Mummer's Wife ' holds at present a unique position among English novels. It is a conspicuous success of its kind.
Page 24 - ... all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling-, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved, every word of it is true.
Page 322 - Through the streaming glass they could see the strip of bog; and the half -naked woman, her soaked petticoat clinging about her red legs, piling the wet peat into the baskets thrown across the meagre back of a starveling ass. And farther on there were low-lying, swampy fields, and between them and the road-side a few miserable poplars with cabins sunk below the dung-heaps, and the meagre potato-plots lying about them; and then, as these are passed, there are green enclosures full of fattening kine,...