THE UNKNOWN SEA. A Romance by Clemence Housman, Author of “The Were Wolf.” Crown 8vo, art vellum, gold top. 6s.
Literature.—“On the conception of Christian the author may be congratulated. He is ideal without sentimentality, and his sacrifice and death have the poignancy of reality, symbol though he is of the world’s greatest idea.”
Guardian.—“Decidedly powerful and effective. Its author has certainly a spell by which, like the ancient mariner, he can force people to listen to and accept his tale.”
Pall Mall Gazette.—“The story is a powerful one, stirring the imagination with vague suggestions of mystery, and compelling interest throughout. For those who can appreciate fine writing, moreover, the style itself will prove an added attraction, and will not only sustain the reputation which Miss Housman has already made, but will also enhance the lustre of the talented family of which she is a member.”
St James’s Gazette.—“The qualities that commend this book are its fitting impression of the supernatural, its studied and generally successful use of words, and its appreciation of the beauty of visible things. It achieves an absolute effect of beauty, an effect of a kind extremely rare in English that is not verse. The book has beauty and sense—not, thank Heaven, common sense!—in it, and is quite remote from the common trash of the book market.”
Nottingham Daily Guardian.—“‘The Unknown Sea’ is not a popular novel; there is too much really fine work in it for that, but hardly a page fails to indicate the author’s delicate methods and robust individuality.”
SINJOHN, JOHN.
JOCELYN. A Monte Carlo Story by John Sinjohn, Author of “From the Four Winds.” Crown 8vo, art canvas. 6s.
Daily Mail.—“The love, as love, is shown with such intensity that it sets the reader’s heart athrob, and the Riviera setting is aglow with colour and life.”
Outlook.—“He has set it against a charmingly painted background of warm Southern atmosphere and Mediterranean scenery, and he has drawn, in the persons of the delightfully commonplace Mrs Travis and Nielson—the polished cosmopolitan and professional gambler, with an unsuspected strain of tenderness beneath his impassive exterior—two of the best comedy characters that we have encountered in recent fiction.”