"After 'The House of Mirth' a New York society novel has to be very good not to suffer fearfully by comparison. 'The Fighting Chance' is very good and it does not suffer."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"There is no more adorable person in recent fiction than Sylvia Landis."—New York Evening Sun.
"Drawn with a master hand."—Toledo Blade.
"An absorbing tale which claims the reader's interest to the end."—Detroit Free Press.
"Mr. Chambers has written many brilliant stories, but this is his masterpiece."—Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
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A MASTERPIECE OF FICTION.
The Guarded Flame.
By W. B. MAXWELL, Author of "Vivien." Cloth, $1.50.
"'The Guarded Flame, by W. B. Maxwell, is a book to challenge the attention of the reading public as a remarkable study of moral law and its infraction. Mr. Maxwell is the son of Miss M. E. Braddon (Mrs. John Maxwell), whose novels were famous a generation ago, and his first book 'Vivien' made the English critics herald him as a new force in the world of letters. 'The Guarded Flame' is an even more astonishing production, a big book that takes rank with the most important fiction of the year. It is not a book for those who read to be amused or to be entertained. It touches the deepest issues of life and death."—Albany Argus.