Barry Pain

“ A BACHELOR IN ARCADY. By Halliwell Sutcliffe, Author of 'Rictoft of Withens,' 'Mistress Barbara Cunliffe,' etc.
In this book Mr. Sutcliffe abandons his strenuous manner of adventure, feud, swordplay and fierce wooing, and gives us an English idyll. The bachelor is a man of some thirty odd years, who dwells in rural peace among his animals, birds, fields and flowers, and, assisted by his faithful henchman, sows his seeds, mows and prunes in complacent contempt for such as have succumbed to the delights of matrimony. ”

“ The attraction of the book consists rather in the brightly-drawn contrast of the Irish and English temperaments, with their widely differing views of life, than in exciting incidents, though the reader can hardly fail to feel the fascination of the heroine or to be interested in all that befalls her. ”

“ The scene is laid in Halliwell Sutcliffe's favourite country, the moors of the West Riding, though in the present book he goes even farther into the heart of the heath, nearer to that simplicity of feeling and passion which is the real mark of the moor-folk. His characters spring from the moor, as it were, and grow out of it; and not least of these characters is Hester, the impulsive, erring farm lass, who dreamed wild dreams at Windy Farm, and saw herself supplanted by a little, well-born woman rescued from the snow. ”

“ There is something in the atmosphere about her which makes marrying men fight shy of her. Philippa, however, is saved from social shipwreck by marrying in such a way as to rouse the envy of all those who have been her traducers. ”

“ A background of adventure is set by the last days of the Second Empire and the Commune of 1871.
A DRAMA OF SUNSHINE-Played la Homburg. By Mrs. Aubrey Richardson. (First Novel Library) .
A dramatic episode of life in Homburg, at the height of the English senses. The characters represent types of men and women actually to be met with in the high social and political world of to-day. A society Beauty and a Sister of an Anglican Community personify the red Rose of Love, Pride and Gaiety, and the pale Lily of Purity, Aspiration and Repression. ”

“ The 'Innocent Impostor' of the title is a very charming girl who has grown up in the full belief of herself and the world that she is Miss Barclay of Baglesfauldst: her mother dotes on her, she is seemingly heiress to large property, even the Queen interested in her, how can she guess that she is in reality the daughter of a beggar woman, and is keeping the rightful heir out of his inheritance? ”

“ It helps us to see more and to understand better. Prophecy is a thankless task, but we should not be surprised at any one's prophesying that these books will live; they certainly stand far above the fiction of the day in sincerity and power."—Times. ”

“ The story deals with the adventure of a man and a maid in the time of Mary I of England. The heroine, the daughter of a wild and reckless father, inherits his bold spirit, and by her woman's wit and courage, assists her lover to elude the pursuit of his enemies. She sallies forth in man's attire for his sake, and has many adventures, both humorous and otherwise before the end is attained. ”

“ CATHARINE FURZE.
"It is impossible to name after Mark Rutherford a novelist who has stirred a pity so deep and wide with less appearance of making a business of tears.—Athenaeum.
"Something unique in modern English literature."—C. F. G. Masterman in the Daily News.
"The works of Mark Rutherford have done more for me by a great deal than the works of any other living author."—Dr Robertson Nicoll in the British Weekly.
"Will always live in the history of the English Novel. "Edward Garnett in the Speaker.
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“ Sometimes under her own, sometimes under an assumed name, she takes various situations in England and France, and is brought in contact with many different sets of society both in the upper and the middle classes. ”