Johnny Ludlow, First Series

by Mrs. Henry Wood

18.

JOHNNY LUDLOW.

The Second Series.

TWENTY-THIRD THOUSAND.

“The author has given proof of a rarer dramatic instinct than we had suspected among our living writers of fiction. It is not possible by means of extracts to convey any adequate sense of the humour, the pathos, the dramatic power and graphic description of this book.”—The Noncomformist.

“Mrs. Henry Wood has made a welcome addition to the list of the works of contemporary fiction.”—Athenæum (second notice).

“These most exquisite studies.”—Noncomformist (second notice).

“These tales are delightful from their unaffected and sometimes pathetic simplicity.”—Standard (second notice).

“To write a short story really well is the most difficult part of the art of fiction; and ‘Johnny Ludlow’ has succeeded in it in such a manner that his—or rather her—art looks like nature, and is hardly less surprising for its excellence than for the fertility of invention on which it is founded.”—Globe.

“Freshness of tone, briskness of movement, vigour, reality, humour, pathos. It is safe to affirm that there is not a single story which will not be read with pleasure by both sexes, of all ages.”—Illustrated London News.