“This is a powerful story, the last from the pen of an indefatigable worker and true friend of the total abstinence cause. The scene of the o’er true tale is laid in East Yorkshire, the author’s native district, which he knew and loved so well. The characters appear to be drawn from life, and every chapter has a vivid and terrible interest. The friendship between old Aaron Brigham and Little Kitty is touching. The tale of trouble, sorrow, and utter ruin wrought by the demon of strong drink might well rouse every man, woman, and child to fight the destroyer, which, in the unfolding of the story, we see enslaving minister and people, shaming the Christian Church, breaking hearts all round, and wrecking the dearest hopes of individuals and families. A striking and pitiful tale, not overdrawn.”—Alliance News.
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Faces on the Queen’s Highway,
By FLO. JACKSON.
Though oftenest to be found in a pensive mood, the writer of this very dainty volume of sketches is always very sweet and winning. She has evidently a true artist’s love of nature, and in a few lines can limn an autumn landscape full of colour, and the life which is on the down slope. And she can tell a very taking story, as witness the sketch “At the Inn,” and “The Master of White Hags,” and all her characters are real, live flesh-and-blood people, who do things naturally, and give very great pleasure to the reader accordingly. Miss Jackson’s gifts are of a very high order.—Aberdeen Free Press.
A charmingly written series of sketches and stories by Flo Jackson, published under the happy title “Faces on the Queen’s Highway.” The writer possesses descriptive powers of a high order, and her “visionary glimpses of the passers on the patch of highway beyond the curtained window,” appeals strongly to one’s better and nobler feelings.—Chester Courant.
This volume bears the name, as its author, of Flo Jackson, a talented writer, whose sketches and stories we have often read with pleasure. We can promise the same experience for readers of this volume, which contains some of Miss Jackson’s typical work in prose. “In Winter Mood,” “At the Inn,” “The Journey of the Leaves,” “Safe at Last,” and the sketches in “Faces” are specimens of a high standard of literary excellence. With a poetic and imaginative nature the writer combines a happy power of expression, and she is thus enabled to paint a picture which easily arrests the attention. “At the Inn,” already named, is a short story, which for its artistic effect and its pathos would sustain the reputation of one of our leading authors. Throughout the book there is a spirit of tender refinement; while there are numerous features likely to attract the reader, there are none to repel him. The prevailing style is as unconventional as the “introduction,” which is a pretty departure from the orthodox mode of bowing to the reader.—Bristol Observer.
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“A very entertaining volume.”—Birmingham Daily Gazette.
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