SOME PRESS OPINIONS.
Daily Chronicle—
"Will be read with interest. Pauline Etheredge is skilfully touched in. Fatal sirens are so universally presented to us in novels as totally devoid of humour as they are full of charm, that we welcome this deviation from the beaten track."
Literature—
"A powerful book, as are all Curtis Yorke's novels."
Newcastle Daily Chronicle—
"The best novel we have had from her pen. The talented author tells her story well, and with considerable power, and cleverly maintains the reader's interest to the end."
Glasgow Herald—
"Charmingly written."
Dundee Advertiser—
"Clever and fascinating, as is everything by this writer."
Literary World—
"Decidedly pleasant reading, and calculated to further the author's reputation as a bright and entertaining novelist."
A FOREWORD ON "ANIMA VILIS."
"Anima Vilis" is a novel dealing with life in Siberia as it really is, not as we have hitherto imagined it, a land of knouts, inhuman Russian officials, and sundry other horrors. In his preface, Count de Soissons says—
"Desiring to destroy the false ideas concerning the Russian Empire that have become so deeply rooted in the minds of most persons, we decided that the best way to accomplish our purpose would be by a novel based on life in Siberia, and this novel was written by Miss Marya Rodziewicz, a noted Polish writer. It is well known that there is not much sympathy between the Russians and Poles. But, at the same time, there is an honesty of purpose in those serious and earnest Polish writers, which, notwithstanding the wrongs their country has suffered at the hands of the Russians, would prevent their stooping to falsify facts. Thus Miss M. Rodziewicz's views of life in Siberia are more worthy of credence than the scribblings of those writers who, for the sake of creating a sensation, and its usual accompaniment, the desire of making money, relate blood-curdling stories of the barbarism of Russia."
SOME PRESS OPINIONS.
Leeds Mercury—
"An engrossing book. The story is a powerful one, and, breathing as it does the true life of the Siberian, is profoundly interesting."
Daily News—
"The book is well worth reading. Her descriptions are wonderfully suggestive."
Daily Telegraph—
"Deeply interesting."
New Age—
"Told with piercing vividness, 'Anima Vilis' is so good and so finely done, that we sincerely hope to read more stories by so talented an author."
Review of the Week—
"Has the simplicity and directness typical of Slavonic literature. Its freshness and originality should stimulate translators to further explorations in literary Poland."
Literature—
"It has both power and charm."
"Captain Satan" forms a romance d'aventure of the Dumasesque school, having the famous Cyrano de Bergerac for hero, and giving a vivid picture of the redoubtable hero, swashbuckler, poet, and philosopher. The book has attained widespread popularity in France. There is a most enthralling and extremely powerful plot, while one exciting episode succeeds another in a fashion that holds the reader's attention fascinated to the last page. The character of Cyrano, forming as it does a central figure around which everything turns, adds additional attractiveness to this unquestionably notable romance, since general interest in his remarkable personality has been so largely re-awakened by M. Coquelin's and Mr. Charles Wyndham's superb presentations of the character of M. Rostand's famous play, the book will appeal to a still wider section of the reading public.
SOME PRESS OPINIONS.
Daily Chronicle—
"The author has the lightness of touch and sweep of imagination which impart a real thrilling vitality to the romantic novel."
Daily Telegraph—
"A delightful book. The romance that Gallet has woven around his hero is one of the masterpieces of French literature. So vividly delineated are the dramatis persona, so interesting and enthralling are the incidents in the development of the tale, that it is impossible to skip one page, or lay down the volume until the last words are read."
Daily News—
"The story is always in movement, and stirring incidents follow each other in inexhaustible succession."
The Star—
"A brisk, slashing, galloping, gallant affair. Both the time and the manner are wittily hit off."
Dublin Express—
"An excellent romance, well constructed and well told."
Pall Mall Gazette—
"The plot is original, and of most lively interest. The reader being agitated by most active doubts and fears to the very last chapter."
Morning Leader—
"A most exciting and stirring romance."
SOME PRESS OPINIONS.
Daily Telegraph—
"Entertaining and readable, partaking more of the nature of stories of adventure than of the conventional detective kind, but in each case containing a genuine mystery and an ingenious elucidation of the same."
Pall Mall Gazette—
"A lively and varied series of cosmopolitan crime, with plenty of mixed adventure and sensation. Such stories always fascinate, and Major Arthur Griffiths knows well how to tell them."
Gentlewoman—
"Exciting and well sustained, by no means the ordinary class of detective story, but takes one all over the world and introduces an abundance of adventure."
Glasgow Herald—
"Carries the reader forward with unflagging zest."
Aberdeen Free Press—
"An engaging book of private detective stories by this well-known writer, he writes brightly and retains the reader's attention throughout."
Daily News—
"An exciting story."
St. James' Gazette—
"They are good reading."
OTHERS IN PREPARATION.