Mr. Du Maurier deserves the gratitude of all who come across his book, both for the pleasant and tender fancies in which it abounds, and for its fourscore dainty sketches.—Athenæum, London.
The personal characterization is particularly strong, the pictures of Paris are wonderfully graphic, and the tale will induce many of its readers to attempt Du Maurier’s receipt for “dreaming true.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
Novelty of subject and of treatment, literary interest, pictorial skill—the reader must be fastidious whom none of these can allure.—Chicago Tribune.
There are so many beauties, so many singularities, so much that is fresh and original, in Mr. Du Maurier’s story that it is difficult to treat it at all adequately from the point of view of criticism. That it is one of the most remarkable books that have appeared for a long time is, however, indisputable.—N. Y. Tribune.
There are no suggestions of mediocrity. The pathos is true, the irony delicate, the satire severe when its subject is unworthy, the comedy sparkling, and the tragedy, as we have said, inevitable. One or two more such books, and the fame of the artist would be dim beside that of the novelist.—N. Y. Evening Post.
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FOOTNOTE:
[A] There is a scheme in consideration now, I believe, to restore that noble street out of its degradation to something like the stateliness of old, through the patriotic exertions of Professor Geddes.