ST. JAMES’S GAZETTE.
“When we say that Mr. Downey reminds us not a little of his great precursor, Lever, we are paying him no idle compliment.”
GUARDIAN.
“One of the best descriptions of Irish life that we have read since Lever.”
SPECTATOR.
“A very bright and vivacious book.... The merchant is a very carefully painted portrait, and he is really made to live.”
THE SUN.
“Before you are half-way through the first chapter of this entertaining book you realize that you are here face to face with Ireland drawn from the life, that this is fiction not of stale convention but of first-hand observation, and that the story demands more than ordinary attention.”
ATHENÆUM.
“It is pleasant for a reviewer to be able to congratulate him on the good account to which he has now turned his extensive acquaintance with Irish provincial life.”