ACADEMY.—“A book to read, and a book to keep after reading. Mr. Allen’s gifts are many—a style pellucid and picturesque, a vivid and disciplined power of characterization, and an intimate knowledge of a striking epoch and an alluring country.... So magical is the wilderness environment, so fresh the characters, so buoyant the life they lead, so companionable, so well balanced, and so touched with humanity, the author’s personality, that I hereby send him greeting and thanks for a brave book.... The Choir Invisible is a fine achievement.”

PALL MALL GAZETTE.—“Mr. Allen’s power of character drawing invests the old, old story with renewed and absorbing interest.... The fascination of the story lies in great part in Mr. Allen’s graceful and vivid style.”

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A DRAMA IN SUNSHINE

By HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL

CONTENTS

The Prologue

Chapter I. Sausages and Palaver—II. Illumination—III. William Chillingworth—IV. Calamity Cañon—V. Speculations—VI. Which contains a Moral—VII. Of Blood and Water—VIII. Which ends in Flames—IX. “Is Writ in Moods and Frowns and Wrinkles Strange”—X. The Daughters of Themis

LITERATURE.—“It has the joy of life in it, sparkle, humour, charm.... All the characters, in their contrasts and developments, are drawn with fine delicacy; and the book is one of those few which one reads again with increased pleasure.”

DAILY TELEGRAPH.—“A story of extraordinary interest.... Mr. Vachell’s enthralling story, the dénouement of which worthily crowns a literary achievement of no little merit.”