This is the test of a masterpiece.
The story is the chronicle of a swift year of passion in the lives of two sisters and one man. In quite different ways these two sisters are lovable English girls, so charming and graceful that they find additional lovers with every reader of the book. The man, belonging to a different class, is a son of the wild country, with a drive in his temperament which is like a torrent. How love played with these lives is the drama of the tale.
The story is set in the midst of the Yorkshire fells, and the grandeur of those mountainous solitudes invests the tale with a sensible greatness. The reader forgets all the conventions of society and all the restrictions of the town. He finds himself listening to a movement of the human heart in the midst of nature's eternal indifference to mankind.
Mr. Chater writes with an extraordinary swiftness, getting all his effects without verbosity and without effort. His passionate sympathy with human nature and his deep knowledge of men and women are evident throughout the story, so that the reader lives with his people, loves with them, hates with them, rejoices with them, sorrows with them, and in the end finds he is haunted by their memory.
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By W. EDWARD STIRLING. Crown 8vo 3s. 6d. net.
This is the novelization of the play by F. Brett Young and W. Edward Stirling about to be produced in London and the provinces.
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