FIFTEENTH THOUSAND. $1.50
OPINIONS BY GREAT CRITICS
Senator John M. Thurston:
"I have read no book of modern times which so completely demanded my undivided attention from the beginning to the end as 'The Column,' by Charles Marriott. It is a striking and, as it seems to me, a faithful delineation of the strongest yet most natural characters. The language is chaste and refined, the dramatic interest intense, the plot powerful, and the whole work cleanly and brilliantly intellectual. It is sure to take high rank in the literature of the day."
Mr. Julian Hawthorne:
"Marriott, taken as an alternative after other literary forms, is deeply welcome and full of wholesome succulence. He paces up and down, as it were, in a hall where all is harmonious and proudly beautiful, even fastidious.... It is a book full of repose, even in its passion; and it is everywhere rich in beauty.... Mr. Marriott comes among us a stranger and an alien; but he is welcome, for he brings with him a beauty which lifts and purifies the mind."
Mr. Bliss Carman:
"In this book a new writer of English fiction has arisen and arrived, another signal success been added to contemporary literature.... Here is 'The Column' with genius writ clear on every page.... A fine book, a piece of art for which to be gladly thankful."
Mr. W. L. Courtney (London Daily Telegraph):
"Whoever Charles Marriott may be ... he has written a very remarkable novel.... The heroine is of a rare and original type.... A book very fresh, very original, very interesting, and very suggestive. He has handled situations and problems in the true spirit of an artist."
The London Standard:
"'The real, bright thing.' ... The book is a very able one. Moreover, it is full of beautiful things, of passages and ideas that have as surely come out of the past, sunned and soaked through with Nature, before they appear here, as the heroine's soul, if she possessed one, before it reappeared in Cornwall."