“His style is always rich and sometimes of a texture of almost dazzling beauty.... In the ‘New Canterbury Tales’ there are rare elements of beauty. The stories are mediæval to the very core, and show extraordinary power of imaginative perception of the inner life of a distant and alien age.”—The Outlook.
“Each strikes a different note, but each is faithful to the taste of his time, which means a stout belief in the Saints, and perhaps as genuine a fear of ‘Old Legion,’ a delight in chivalrous deeds, in mundane pomp and might. And behind them is the author’s genius for the creation of character and drama, so that these Old World fancies, full of the glamour of ancient legend, in some cases all compact of a curious, mediæval quaintness, seem somehow extraordinarily human and true.”—New York Tribune.
“With each successive volume there is added proof, if such proof were needed, that for real fineness of touch and true artistic instinct Mr. Hewlett stands quite by himself in his country and generation.”—The Commercial Advertiser, New York.
“In the key and style of the author’s ‘Little Novels of Italy,’ it shows again the brilliant qualities of that remarkable book, ... daring but successful.”—New York Tribune.
“The whole is an intense and delightful surprise.”—Chicago Tribune.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RICHARD YEA AND NAY
By MAURICE HEWLETT
Author of “The Forest Lovers,” “Little Novels of Italy,” etc.