of what I may call the
Bohemia of London; but it is also full of a new quality, the quality
of imaginative tenderness and creative sympathy. It is delightful to
watch the growth of human character either in life or in literature,
and in 'The Heart of a Child' one can see the brilliancy of Frank
Danby suddenly burgeoning into the wistfulness that makes cleverness
soft and exquisite and delicate.... It is a mixture of naturalism and
romance, and one detects in it the miraculous power ... of seeing
things steadily and seeing them wholly, with relentless humor and
pitiless pathos. The book is crowded with types, and they are all
etched in with masterly fidelity of vision and sureness of touch, with
feminine subtlety as well as virile audacity."--James Douglas in _The
Star_, London.

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The Woman Errant

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