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It is the kind one longs to find after trying many and not meeting satisfaction.
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A constantly increasing pleasure as you peruse page after page.
human
It is a good one and an interesting one.
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A noteworthy novel.
human
He works out the situation to a fortunate conclusion.
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A distinctly good novel of real life.
human
A capital story.
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It is a novel of more than usual interest and cannot fail of an abundant popularity.
human
A delightful story.
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Has a quality of its own.
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Unusually strong points.
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An extremely clever story.
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Interesting creation.
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With a feeling of loving regret I lay down the book.
human
An interesting and well told tale.
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An extremely clever tale.
human
More than usually interesting.
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An excellent story well told.
human
Starts upon a good literary level, and maintains it to the end, and never for a moment degenerates.... One sits through the story with genuine pleasure, and rises from the reading of it with indubitable refreshment.
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Chamber Over the Gate,
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Will be read with interest.
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One of those typical American novels in conception and development.
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Of interest from first to last.
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A good, strong, skillfully told American novel.
human
A story that will create a sensation.
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One of the most original, able and remarkable of recent novels.
human
The book is thrilling and dramatic.
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Will not lack for admirers.
human
Very attractive story.
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One of the best Southern novels we have ever read.
human
It is a side of the slavery question of which Northern people knew nothing.
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Strong and picturesque sketches of camp and field in the days of the Civil War.
human
The book is being dramatized by Mr. James A. Herne, the well-known actor, author and manager.
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It tells a splendid story.
human
Will be sure to attract the attention it deserves.
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In its scope and power it is unrivalled among war stories.
human
In many ways the most remarkable historical novel of the Civil War.
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The interview with Lincoln is one of the finest bits of dialogue in a modern book.
human
Will probably be the most popular and saleable novel since Robert Elsmere.
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One of the most instructive and fascinating writers of our time.
human
Has enriched American literature.
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Remarkably true to history.
human
Entitled to a place with standard histories of the War.
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By Order of the Czar.
human
Most dramatic manner.... Deserves to rank well up in current fiction.
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Villainy of the deepest die, heroism of the highest sort, beauty wronged and long suffering, virtue finally rewarded, thrills without number.
human
Clean wholesome story, which should take prominent place in current fiction.
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Finely conceived and finely written.
human
This is his masterpiece.
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The chief merit is the account of the Plague in Eyam.... It is a true story and Eyam is a real village.
human
Weird and interesting to the point of being absorbing. The only way to get the story is to read it.
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Seventeenth century romance steeped in the traditions of the Church and of the times.
human
Susannah.
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An admirable piece of work, and is worth a crowd of far more pretentious productions.
human
Heartily alive and extremely well written.
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Resembles some of Stockton's works.
human
Takes high rank among a decade's array of entertaining books.
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Possessing among other merits that of original detail.
human
The author has a very genius for clever character drawing.
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There is much force and action.
human
Intense human interest.
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The author has a genius for clever character drawing.
human
An unusually pleasing novel and well written.
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A charming book, beginning with good chapters of child-life, and containing memorable figures, notably Billy the Curate and Betty herself. Betty is, indeed, quite a discovery.
human
A Daughter of the Philistines,
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One Man's Views.
human
A second success.... An exceptionally able novel.
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Remarkable for its splendid delineation of character, its workmanship and natural arrangement of plot.
human
Has distinction of style and character, dramatic force and literary effectiveness.
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An intensely dramatic story, and written with force and precision.
human
Mr. Merrick's work is of a very high quality. Is the most masterly of his three books.
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The delicacy of the character sketching has a brilliancy and fascination strangely magnetic.
human
Is a forceful, dramatic and altogether human story of English life.
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Strong story.
human
It is useless to say that so strong, so fierce a book must be written well.
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My Heart's Darling,
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Her Only Brother,
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Tales of an Old Castle,
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The story is true to life in some of its manifold phases and will repay reading.
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It is written in the usual entertaining style of this well known author.
human
Very good reading.
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The action is vigorous and the story interesting.
human
Capital story by an established favorite.
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Is a charming German story by the author of Heart's Darling,
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Good Luck,
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Her Only Brother,
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It possesses the positive virtue of being pure and wholesome in sentiment.
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It comprises all the many qualities of romance that recommend all Heimburg's other stories.
human
It is simple, but dignified and free from any of those smirches that suggest the presence of vice and impurity.
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When The World Was Younger
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Miss Braddon skilfully uses as a background the great plague and fire in London, which gives realism to her picture.
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The characters are clearly drawn and strongly contrasted. The manners of the times, the intrigues of the court, the landmarks of London, are unerringly painted.
human
The first attempt Miss M. B. Braddon has made in the line of the historical novel.
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She has chosen the period of the Restoration of Charles the Second for her romance, and has given us an excellent description of the state of society in London and at the Court during the reign of that dissolute monarch.
human
It is needless to say that the story is well told.
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One of the strongest and most enjoyable of her stories.
human
It abounds in mystifying plot, lovable characters, rapid and thrilling incident and delightful descriptions of English scenery.
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A tale worth reading.
human
Full of incident, chapter after chapter, brimming with vital meanings.
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Beautiful, innocent and brave was Angela, the heroine.
human
It is a Braddon story in the famous old Braddon vein.
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This one reviewing the days of Cromwell and the Charles is no shallow piece of work.
human
Miss Braddon has caught the atmosphere cleverly and manufactured a stirring novel which bears evidence of careful thought and planning.
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The scene is laid in England in the early days of the Restoration. Charles II., Nell Gwyune, Pepys, and Milton are among the characters.
human
None of her books tells a more interesting story.
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Deserves more extended notice than we are able to give.
human
Remarkable for its poetic imagery and its beauties of diction.
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Interesting, poetic, dramatic--dealing with crucial moments in life.
human
Delicate, fantastic touch.
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A vein of sincere, sympathetic humanity--marked by passages of earnest poetic feeling.
human
Charmingly fanciful style, sweet, wholesome and entertaining.
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Of exceptional merit and interest. Boldness of conception,--poetic beauty and vigorous originality.
human
Romantic in character.
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The sentences are short, sharp and crisp.
human
I never heard of the author before, we shall all hear of him again.
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Portrays human experience with a hand that is masterly and true.
human
Interesting, well written, quaint, humorous, pathetic, mystical.
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Most poetic and delicate in treatment.
human
The plot is well constructed, the story is well told, and there is enough of mystery to satisfy the most exacting reader.
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Running through the story are the threads of one or two affairs of the heart, which are woven into pleasant conclusions. Some of the scenes are stirringly dramatic.
human
A new book, which, like the preceding ones from the pen of the same author, is a strong story and which promises to be extensively read, is B. L. Farjeon's new novel, 'The Betrayal of John Fordham.'
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The plot is intricate and deeply involved and dramatically and skillfully worked out.