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"It is seldom that an historical novel is so satisfactory; there is not a single dull or dead page.... We have nothing but praise for the exciting tale, the accurate and lively picture of the period, and the extremely clever drawing of the characters. Mrs. Brookfield must certainly write some more historical novels."—Daily Telegraph.
"Mrs. Brookfield, the author of 'The Cambridge Apostles,' has written a novel in which she has used her power of revealing character in dialogue with considerable dexterity. 'My Lord of Essex' is an historical romance with the expedition to Cadiz as its central episode. The story and all its characters are completely historical, the history being not merely a setting for a romantic story, but the romantic story itself.... Mrs. Brookfield's Essex is not merely the brave soldier, the badly-used favourite, and the hero of the mob; he is also the far-seeing strategist and the great statesman with schemes of toleration and popular government in advance of his age.... We follow the account of the expedition to Cadiz with a new enthusiasm.... Mrs. Brookfield's Essex is a real personality, and she makes not only him but the whole atmosphere of the period live for us. This is especially the case in the account of his relations with Elizabeth. The scenes in which she shows us Elizabeth baiting Essex one minute and giving him the next unmistakable proofs of her love, trying even his loyalty to the utmost and yet never losing the something more than loyalty with which, while he loved his Countess, he yet regarded her, are admirable; indeed, historical fiction has not for a long time given us anything better."—Morning Post.
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No. 1 AMEN CORNER, E.C.
BY ROBERT HUGH BENSON
The Sentimentalists
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"The strongest of all Father Benson's books.... There is no denying the strength and sincerity of the book, nor the force of its downright insistence upon the necessity or expelling the excesses of sentimentalism from the character.... A strongly worded but clean-minded exposure of one side of contemporary national life."—Daily Telegraph.
"The characterisation is always admirable. It is full of humour and shrewd observation, and it is never dull. It is a distinct advance on its author's previous works, and places him high in the rank of contemporary novelists."—Morning Post.
"One of the most subtle studies in the psychology of egotism which have been written since Meredith's masterpiece."—Tribune.
"A full-length portrait of a poseur.... We have encountered, nothing better in its way than this merciless analysis of the psychology of the histrionic temperament."—Spectator.
"Mr. Benson gives in Christopher Dell a very careful study of a temperament, drawn with much truth and discernment.... The minor characters are extremely good, and so, indeed, are all the accessories of the story, the descriptions, the setting of the scenes, and so forth."—Times.
Lord of the World
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