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illpotts in all his work has done no single piece of portraiture better than this presentation of Philip Ouldsbroom.... A triumph of the novelist's understanding and keen drawing.... A Dartmoor background described in terms of an artist's deeply felt appreciation.--_New York World._ "No other English writer has painted such fascinating and colorful word-pictures of Dartmoor's heaths and hills, woods and vales, and billowy plains of pallid yellow and dim green. Few others have attempted such vivid character-portrayal as marks this latest work from beginning to end."--_The North American._ "A strong book, flashing here and there with beautiful gems of poetry.... Providing endless food for thought.... An intellectual treat."--_London Evening Standard._ The Haven _Cloth. 12mo. $1.50_ "The foremost English novelist with the one exception of Thomas Hardy.... His descriptions of the sea and his characterization of the fisher folks are picturesque, true to life, full of humorous philosophy."--JEANNETTE L. GILDER in _The Chicago Tribune_. "It is no dry bones of a chronicle, but touched by genius to life and vividness."--_Louisville, Kentucky, Post._ "A close, thoughtful study of universal human nature."--_The Outlook._ "One of the best of this author's many works."--_The Bookman._ MAUD DIVER A TRILOGY OF ANGLO-INDIAN ARMY LIFE _New York Times_: "Above the multitude of novels (erotic and neurotic) hers shine like stars. She has produced a comprehensive and full drama of life, rich in humanity; noble, satisfying--it is not too much to say great." (New Editions) CANDLES IN THE WIND CAPTAIN DESMOND, V. C. THE GREAT AMULET _Cloth, 12mo. $1.50 each._ _The Argonaut (San Francisco)_: "We doubt if any other writer gives us so composite and convincing a picture of that curious mixture of soldier and civilian that makes up Indian society. She shows us the life of the country from many standpoints, giving us the idea of a storehouse of experience so well stocked that incidents can be selected with a fastidious and dainty care." _London Morning Post_: "Vigor of characterization accompanied by an admirable terseness and simplicity of expression." _Literary World_: "Undoubtedly some of the finest novels that Indian life has
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