Alice and a Family
Cloth, 12 mo., $1.25
"Alice is a sharp witted, sensible child of the London streets. ... She looks after a family that has lost its director, the mother, while the father has been thrown out of the work he knows by an accident.... It is a lower level of life than Dickens explored, that of the London laboring man; it is handled as sympathetically and as vividly as Dickens might have and with no trace of the false sentimentality that afflicted him at times.... Alice is a child to be loved and admired and not to be forgotten soon. It is a capital story and a fine piece of work ... as enjoyable a blend of fun and hard sense as we have met in a long while."—New York Sun.
"Just wholesome human nature working in one of the short and simple annals of the poor. The best of Dickens without his too profuse pathos."—Reedy's Mirror.
"A juvenile Mrs. Wiggs, not of the cabbage patch, but of the London pavements ... a wholesome bit of lite illumined with an optimism that even poverty cannot dim."—Duluth News-Tribune.
"St John G. Ervine has firmly established his claim to a place in the ranks of those younger writers to whom we look for the worth-while novels of the future."—New York Times.
"A delightfully entertaining story, full of humor and common sense philosophy.... St John G. Ervine has already won a place as one of the foremost of the present day novelists."—Independent.
"One of the most brilliant novels I have read in recent years."—William Lyon Phelps.