PATTEN WILSON
Crown 8vo, 6s.
“Mr. Swettenham’s style is simple and direct and vigorous. Particularly good is his eye for colour, and he has a fine sense of the brilliant melancholy of the East. To few falls the good fortune of introducing us to a new people, and seldom have we the advantage of so admirable a guide.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“Nothing approaching Mr. Swettenham’s intimate knowledge and illuminative analysis has yet seen the light about that fascinating country which he so well describes.”—Daily Chronicle.
“Its unconventional character is one of the most attractive points about this very attractive volume. Mr. Swettenham succeeds in making the life and character of the Malays real to us in a way that so far as we are aware no other writer has done.”—Publishers’ Circular.
“A pleasant simplicity of style, a total lack of affectation, and a comparatively unknown land and people for subject-matter, make ‘Malay Sketches’ entirely delightful. They are always vivid, always convincing.”—St. James’s Budget.
“This is one of those books which exercise such a fascination upon the mind of the stay-at-home traveller. Stay-at-home though he may be, he has no difficulty in distinguishing the work of a genuine authority from the hasty and inexact impressions of the idle globe-trotter. ‘Malay Sketches’ will be speedily recognised by him as belonging to the more reliable kind of his favourite literature.”—Spectator.
London: JOHN LANE, The Bodley Head