Mr. Gissing has secured a place in the front rank of the best English novelists, and any story of which he is the author will be widely and eagerly read. “The Unclassed” is a thrilling, intensely dramatic story.
Meadville Stylus
Ida Starr is a child of ten years when the story opens. It closes with her marriage. We are permitted to observe her character in all the stages of its development from a childhood all love and gentleness, through a solitary and defenseless girlhood spent in a desperate struggle against the poverty that ends in starvation, through her temptation, her fall, and her redemption through love. There are, curiously enough, no traces of the influence of the naturalistic school in Mr. Gissing’s work. The entire story is planned and wrought out with the greatest imaginable delicacy.
A Few Press Opinions on
Uncle Scipio
By Mrs. JEANNETTE H. WALWORTH
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Public Opinion
A very effective story of the reconstruction days in Mississippi is Mrs. Jeannette H. Walworth’s “Uncle Scipio.” It is bright and healthy, with a well devised plot, full of incident and entertaining. Stories based on those days of fermentation are not at all rare, but Mrs. Walworth, being a transplanted Northener, has been able to take, not a dispassionate view, but that of a warm-hearted, clear-headed woman. Her novel, however, is by no means a political argument; the time is in the early seventies, and the situation which then existed in the South is merely a background for a good story, which is about the best Mrs. Walworth has written.
Courier