By HENRIK PONTOPPIDAN.
Translated from the Danish by Mrs. Edgar Lucas.
Illustrated by Miss NELLY ERICHSEN.
Daily Chronicle.
“Extremely interesting story ... most delicately delineated, and charms us by its idyllic grace and purity.”
Manchester Guardian.
“As a novel pure and simple the book is altogether out of the common, and the firmness of its character-drawing, the sympathetic rendering of nature’s background, and the prominence given to the life of the clergy, it reminds one not a little of the work of Ferdinand Fabre, the novelist par excellence of French clerical life.”
Glasgow Herald.
“Among the many Scandinavian works that have of late appeared in an English dress, few have worn it with a more charming air than this tale of Henrik Pontoppidan’s, for a really excellent version of which we have to thank Mrs. Lucas.... The tale is told in a fashion that recalls, among our own writers, the intimate knowledge and loving descriptions of Miss Mitford or Mrs. Gaskell. It is not very far from being a work of real genius.”
UNIFORM WITH THE ABOVE.