By Seumas McManus
Author of "Through the Turf Smoke"
"A LAD OF THE O'FRIEL'S"
This is a story of Donegal ways and customs; full of the spirit ofIrish life. The main character is a dreaming and poetic boy whotakes joy in all the stories and superstitions of his people, andhis experience and life are thus made to reflect all the essentialqualities of the life of his country. Many characters in the bookwill make warm places for themselves in the heart of the reader.
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By Shan F. Bullock
Author of "The Barrys," "Irish Pastorals"
THE SQUIREEN
Mr. Bullock takes us into the North of Ireland amongNorth-of-Ireland people. His story is dominated by one remarkablecharacter, whose progress towards the subjugation of his owntemperament we cannot help but watch with interest. He is sweptfrom one thing to another, first by his dare-devil, roisteringspirit, then by his mood of deep repentance, through love andmarriage, through quarrels and separation from his wife, to areconciliation at the point of death, to a return to health, andthrough the domination of the devil in him, finally to death. Itis a strong, convincing novel suggesting, somewhat, "The House withthe Green Shutters." What that book did for the Scotland of IanMaclaren and Barrie, "The Squireen" will do for Ireland.
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By Arthur Morrison
THE HOLE IN THE WALL
No one knows the lower side of London life so well as ArthurMorrison, and this novel is his most masterly presentation of theunderworld with which he is so familiar. He has knit meancharacters, mean passions, mean stage setting into a powerful dramaof life that thrills as much because of the realism with which itis drawn as because of the exciting scenes that come treadinghelter-skelter upon each others heels. The rough sailors, thethugs and criminals that frequent the "Hole in the Wall" Inn losenone of their picturesqueness, nor any of their sordidness either,from Mr. Morrison's treatment of them. He handles his material ina way that suggests strongly the work of Dickens. As an intimatepicture of the lowest life in London, the novel is without an equal.
"It is a section of human life showing true lights and shadows, asection cut by an exceedingly sharp blade. Some of the things thatDickens is most praised for are evident in the work of Mr.Morrison."--_Springfield Republican_.
"All of Mr. Morrison's work deserves the recognition it hasattained, but this is undoubtedly the most artistic, the mostvirile, and the most heartrendingly true."--_Baltimore Sun_.
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By Arnold Bennett
Author of "The Great Babylon Hotel"
ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS
Probably no story of the year is so simply and yet so artisticallytold as this one. It portrays the development of a sweet andnatural girl's character, amid a community of strict WesleyanMethodists in a Staffordshire town. How her upright natureprogresses with constant rebellions against the hypocrisy and cantof the religionists, by whom she is surrounded, is brought out bythe author faithfully and with great delicacy of insight. Manywill love Anna, and not a few will find something in her to suggest"Tess of the Durbervilles." The plot is extremely simple, but thereader will find a surprise in the last chapters.
The English letter from W. L. Alden, in the _New York Times Review_says:
"It will be promptly recognized by the critics whose opinion isworth something _as the most artistic story of the year_."
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