“From first to last absorbs the attention of the reader.”—Morning Post.
“The novel is a novel in the true sense of the word, and whoever reads it must feel refreshed at finding he is perusing altogether a new style of book.”—Observer.
“The novel is a piece of sound workmanship, and distinctly marked off from the ordinary run. It is worthy of its author’s high reputation.”—Weekly Dispatch.
“He has created types that deserve to survive and acquire as much popularity as has fallen to the share of some of those of our most famous humorists.”—Echo.
“One of the most original works of fiction we have met with for a long time, as different from the usual feeble imitations of ‘Ouida’ and ‘George Eliot’ as a breezy common or a bright spring day is from the faint, perfume-laden atmosphere of an aristocratic drawing-room.”—London Journal.
“Mr. Appleton’s genius seems freer, brighter, and more effective in the lighter moods, and he is able to display a varied cultivation without the slightest obtrusion of learning.”—Sunday Times.
“‘A Terrible Legacy’ is a book of great ability and power. It is a curious tribute to the vast vitality of Dickens’ genius that a comparatively new and an able writer should openly take him for a model. Mr. Appleton is not a mere imitator: he does not follow in Dickens’ footsteps by appropriating his materials, but by adopting his point of view. He has chosen his master wisely, for his own talent is similar in kind.”—New York Daily Graphic.
FROZEN HEARTS:
A Romance.
“There is so much power and pathos in the narrative as to give it an impress of realism, and it is, on the whole, one that most people can read with hearty relish.”—Scotsman.