BY MAURICE HEWLETT
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“Among the younger writers of fiction there are two men whose works are of inspiration all compact. They are Rudyard Kipling and Maurice Hewlett.... Both these writers are faithful to human nature, which is at the bottom of all great art and literature. In Kipling the dominant ideal seems to be that of truth, in Hewlett it is beauty (‘truth seen from another side’).... In the writings of the former, truth emerges in naked force; with the author of ‘Little Novels of Italy,’ it comes forth adorned with the flowers of art and poetry, clad in the shimmering cloth of gold of the Italian Renaissance.”—The Tribune, New York.
“There is imagination luminous with poetry and art in this singularly romantic collection of short stories. In the matter of style alone, Mr. Hewlett accomplishes much that is wonderful in its delicacy and loveliness; yet he deals with intensely human passions—passions that with a less delicate perceptive touch or sensitiveness to the divine in human suffering would be base and sordid.”—Boston Herald.
“Mr. Hewlett is one of those rare and happy authors who can make niches for themselves quite apart from the ordinary trend of literature, where invidious comparisons cannot reach them. The quaint, mediæval quality of his ‘Forest Lovers’ has cast its spell over countless readers, even while they questioned wherein that spell could lie; and so it is with his latest volume.”—Commercial Advertiser.
“The style is forceful and picturesque, and the stories are so true to their locality that they read almost like translations.”—New York Times.
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