PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"... their charming edition of the works of Thomas Hardy ... the price asked for it ... is absurdly cheap.... Any more convenient and beautiful form of presentation for these books it would be difficult to find."

ATHENÆUM.—"This edition is so comely and so moderate in price that it may well placate those who have sighed for earlier issues out of their reach. Mr. Hardy's prefaces to the volumes should not be missed, for they are models of a difficult art, whether reflective, informative, or combative."

ATHENÆUM.—"A work of unusual ability.... It fully deserves the notice it is sure to attract."

ATHENÆUM.—"Few recent books have been so difficult to lay down when once begun."

TIMES.—"A masterpiece of narrative.... Unlike any other romance in English literature."

GUARDIAN.—"An instance of the highest and noblest form of novel.... Alike in the originality of its conception and the power with which it is wrought out, it stands on a level that is almost entirely its own."

TIMES.—"A subtle compound of artistic feeling, avarice, malice, and criminal frenzy is this carver of silver chalices and crucifixes."

GUARDIAN.—"The tale is written with all Mr. Crawford's skill."

ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE.—"Those who neglect to read Paul Patoff will throw away a very pleasurable opportunity."

SPECTATOR.—"Cannot fail to please a reader who enjoys crisp, clear, vigorous writing, and thoughts that are alike original and suggestive."

SPECTATOR.—"Altogether, we like Greifenstein decidedly—so much so as to doubt whether it does not dislodge A Roman Singer from the place hitherto occupied by the latter as our favourite amongst Mr. Crawford's novels."

PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"Cannot fail to be read with interest and pleasure by all to whom clever characterisation and delicate drawing make appeal."

SPEAKER.—"There is something in A Rose of Yesterday which makes the book linger with a distinct aroma of its own in the reader's memory."

ATHENÆUM.—"The plot is skilfully concocted, and the interest is sustained to the end.... A very clever piece of work."

GLOBE.—"We are inclined to think this is the best of Mr. Marion Crawford's stories."

ANTI-JACOBIN.—"Mr. Crawford has written some stories more powerful, but none more attractive than this."

NATIONAL OBSERVER.—"Increases in strength and in interest even to the end."

ACADEMY.—"It is so remarkable a book as to be certain of as wide a popularity as any of its predecessors; it is a romance of singular daring and power."

ATHENÆUM.—"Readers in search of a good novel may be recommended to lose no time in making the acquaintance of Marion Darche, her devoted friends, and her one enemy."

PUNCH.—"Admirable in its simple pathos, its unforced humour, and, above all, in its truth to human nature."

DAILY CHRONICLE.—"Mr. Crawford has not done better than The Children of the King for a long time. The story itself is a simple and beautiful one."

SPEAKER.—"Mr. Marion Crawford is an artist, and a great one, and he has been brilliantly successful in a task in which ninety-nine out of every hundred writers would have failed."

ATHENÆUM.—"Don Orsino is a story with many strong points, and it is told with all the spirit we have been wont to expect from its author."

GUARDIAN.—"A very powerful story and a finished work of art."

DAILY NEWS.—"Mr. Crawford has written stories richer in incident and more powerful in intention, but we do not think that he has handled more deftly or shown a more delicate insight into tendencies that go towards making some of the more spiritual tragedies of life."

ATHENÆUM.—"The present instalment of what promises to be a very voluminous family history, increasing in interest and power as it develops, turns upon the death of Robert and the disposition of his millions, which afford ample scope for the author's pleasantly ingenious talent in raising and surmounting difficulties of details."

PALL MALL GAZETTE.—"A splendid romance."

GRAPHIC.—"A stirring story."

SPECTATOR.—"A truly thrilling tale."