The Daily Telegraph.—“A very charmingly produced book.... A harvest of fine photographs, many of which will be of enduring interest. The sketch of Dickens’s life and the running commentary on the pictures themselves are excellently done, and are obviously the work of authors genuinely in love with their subject and free from the extravagance of undue hero worship.”
The Sunday Special.—“To our authors we owe the happy thought of preserving, with the aid of their cameras, the real Dickens land as it exists to-day, and by faithfully following the footsteps of the novelist from boyhood up, they have succeeded in giving us an invaluable picture gallery.... The handsome volume forms a distinct addition to Dickens literature.”
The Athenæum.—“The authors have made excellent use of the many investigations by Mr. Kitton and other indefatigable Dickensians; they have themselves made research and taken photographs; and since they write well, their volume is a model of its kind. The illustrations are numerous and excellent; the index is first-rate, and the events of Dickens’s life are skilfully woven into the narrative.”
The Norwich Mercury.—“In short, this volume is without a peer in the matter that really illustrates Charles Dickens’s life and works.... Mr. and Mrs. Ward have hit the happy mean, so that the book is not a bald statement of ‘hard facts,’ but is lightened by glimpses of art and nature in her brightest moods wherever occasion served.... It cannot fail to be a favourite half-guinea Christmas or New Year’s gift-book.”
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MR. H. G. WELLS’S TWO GREAT WORKS
MANKIND IN THE MAKING
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“Mr. Wells’s ‘Mankind in the Making’ ... is a book to read and to think about, and one which obviously proceeds from a great deal of honest and stubborn thinking on the writer’s part. It both challenges the stupidities of clever people and brings into sharp question the lazy conventions and accepted servilities of modern English life.”—Westminster Gazette.