Times.—“Written in deadly earnest and with extraordinarily intimate knowledge.... A marvellous picture of Irish life on the religious side, in all its phases and varieties.”
Daily Chronicle.—“In several respects one of the most important novels published in these days.”
Westminster Gazette.—“A clearly conceived and intensely interesting novel.... Father Ralph is indeed an impressive work.”
Daily News.—“It takes both courage and conviction to write a novel like this. It takes also a burden of experience to write it so well.”
Pall Mall Gazette.—“A book of absorbing and poignant interest.”
THE WORLD SET FREE: A Story of Mankind.
By H. G. WELLS. Extra crown 8vo. 6s.
Daily Mail.—“With a vigour and audacity of imagination which no other writer of our day can equal, Mr. H. G. Wells has described what the world will be like in the middle of the present century.... A book which must make a very great impression.”
Daily News.—“It is as startling as anything Mr. Wells has ever written. It contains one of the most sensational chapters in the literature of anticipation.”
Times.—“Once more, with his brilliant imagination, Mr. Wells has projected the possibilities of a scientific development down through society at large to the individual, and never has he done so more convincingly or with greater ingenuity.”