“A book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any in the range of fiction,”—The Nation.
“Dear familiar friends, companions, playmates of his are these men and women and children, and he tells you about them so vividly and tenderly that they must be your friends and familiars, too—for their mere charm and their humanness’ sake—in their jests and idle pastimes, not less than in their tragedies and joys.... If you love your Thackeray, you may chance it safely enough—and have your reward.”—New York Times Review.
“Our older novelists (Dickens and Thackeray) will have to look to their laurels, for the new one is fast proving himself their equal. A higher quality of enjoyment than is derivable from the work of any other novelist now living and active in either England or America. Absolutely masterly. The plot is extremely ingenious and complicated.”—The Dial.
WILLIAM DE MORGAN’S ALICE-FOR-SHORT
The story of a London waif, a friendly artist, his friends and family. Seventh printing. $1.75.
“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 Dickens’s novels are remembered.”—Springfield Republican.
WILLIAM DE MORGAN’S JOSEPH VANCE
A novel of life near London in the 50’s. Eighth printing. $1.75.
“The book of the last decade; the best thing in fiction since Mr. Meredith and Mr. Hardy; must take its place as the first great English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century.”—Lewis Melville in New York Times Saturday Review.