G. W. APPLETON’S NOVELS.
A TERRIBLE LEGACY:
A Tale of the South Downs.
“One of the most amusing novels we have ever read. The author revels in a good character, and so the book is filled with grotesque oddities, at which we laugh consumedly.... A novelist who possesses the rare gift of humour. We are grateful for an afternoon of hearty laughter. Could we say as much of nine books out of ten?”—World.
“One of the most amusing novels we have ever read. Mr. Appleton has done for the South Downs what Mr. Blackmore has done for Exmoor.”—St. Stephen’s Review.
“It is not in respect of this rare gift of humour that I alone value the author. This story is a tale of the South Downs, and Mr. Appleton has the power of depicting in words the changing aspects of nature with an absolute fidelity to truth. Counties differ, as human faces differ, only more so. Mr. Appleton has made the South Downs his own literary property.”—Vanity Fair.
“The reader will not be long in discovering that the book is the work of a good and clever writer of no mean dramatic powers—whether in point of conception or of execution—with much drollery and quaintness at command, and a well-developed faculty of dealing with the mysterious, and other admirable gifts.”—Illustrated London News.
“Laughter-moving from first to last. Mr. Appleton has written nothing better than this.”—Scotsman.
“The readers of this strange romance will be bound to confess that the author has held them captive.”—Daily News.