ALICE-FOR-SHORT
The story of a London waif, a friendly artist, his friends and family, with some decidedly dramatic happenings.
"'Joseph Vance' was far and away the best novel of the year, and of many years.... Mr. De Morgan's second novel ... proves to be no less remarkable, and equally productive of almost unalloyed delight.... The reader ... is hereby warned that if he skims 'Alice-for-Short' it will be to his own serious loss.... A remarkable example of the art of fiction at its noblest."—Dial.
"Really worth reading and praising ... will be hailed as a masterpiece. If any writer of the present era is read a half century hence, a quarter century, or even a decade, that writer is William De Morgan."—Boston Transcript.
"It is the Victorian age itself that speaks in those rich, interesting, overcrowded books.... Page by page the new book is as rich, piquant and interesting as its predecessor.... Everywhere are wit, learning and scholarship ... the true creative imagination.... Will be remembered as Dicken's novels are remembered."—Springfield Republican.