"The most powerfully written book of the year."—The Independent.
"'The Guarded Flame' is receiving high praise from the critics everywhere."—Chicago Record-Herald.
"This is a book which cannot fail to make its mark."—Detroit News.
"Great novels are few and the appearance of one at any period must give the early reviewer a thrill of discovery. Such a one has come unheralded; but from a source whence it might have been confidently expected. The author is W. B. Maxwell, son of the voluminous novelist known to the world as Miss Braddon. His novel is entitled 'The Guarded Flame.'"—Philadelphia Press.
"The books of W. B. Maxwell are essentially for thinkers."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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A ROMANCE OF THE CIVIL WAR.
The Victory.
By MOLLY ELLIOTT SEAWELL, author of "The Chateau of Montplaisir," "The Sprightly Romance of Marsac," etc. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50.
"With so delicate a touch and appreciation of the detail of domestic and plantation life, with so wise comprehension of the exalted and sometimes stilted notions of Southern honor and with humorous depiction of African fidelity and bombast to interest and amuse him, it only gradually dawns on a reader that 'The Victory' is the truest and most tragic presentation yet before us of the rending of home ties, the awful passions, the wounded affections personal and national, and the overwhelming questions of honor which weighed down a people in the war of son against father and brother against brother."—Hartford Courant.