Chapter 29

The Novels of Ethel Sidgwick“Ethel Sidgwick is one of the half-dozen women writers who are contributing work of real value to modern English fiction.”—Sunday Times.PROMISE$1.35 net, carriage extra“She appears to us to possess that true imaginative gift, as distinguished from the mere power of vivid reporting, which is the necessary qualification for continuing to produce work of permanent value in fiction.”—Times.“For a first novel ‘Promise’ is exceptionally able—one that should have notable successors.”—Nation.“We are left to hope that the life of this English Jean Christophe will continue through at least another volume, filled with people as variegated and attractive as those to whom we are introduced in this.”—Spectator.“It is difficult to imagine anything being better in its kind than ‘Promise.’ It is the account of a human life from infancy up to the early beginning of a public career—one only wishes it were to be continued in another volume!”—Chicago Evening Post.LE GENTLEMAN:An Idyll of the Quarter$1.25 net, carriage extra“‘Promise’ was a work which lived up to its name. Its successor fulfills it.”—Morning Leader.“The scene of the final parting of Ferguson and Gilberte Morny is as fine as anything we know of in recent fiction. This is that most desirable thing—a novel that is different.”—New York Press.HERSELF$1.35 net, carriage extra“The hardly and ill-used word ‘charm’ must be given its original lustre for the sake of Miss Ethel Sidgwick’s new novel ‘Herself.’ It has the power to bewitch and fascinate; odd smiles and warm tears lurk in it, and a melody played on the strings of the heart.”—Morning Post.SUCCESSION(A Continuation of “Promise”)$1.50 net, carriage extra“It places Miss Sidgwick unmistakably among the leading novelists of the day.”—Morning Post.“A novel that leaves one remembering a chain of scenes vividly impressed, and a good dozen of characters profoundly imagined and beautifully drawn.”—Manchester Guardian.“In the person of this young woman a new figure of unusually brilliant power has arisen in English fiction. She is the first woman novelist of the new period ... to accomplish the conquest of the American public and critics....Successionis indeed a tremendous piece of work. It is not only one of the big novels of the year, but a permanent contribution to English fiction.”—Boston Transcript.SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, BOSTON

The Novels of Ethel Sidgwick

“Ethel Sidgwick is one of the half-dozen women writers who are contributing work of real value to modern English fiction.”—Sunday Times.

PROMISE

$1.35 net, carriage extra

“She appears to us to possess that true imaginative gift, as distinguished from the mere power of vivid reporting, which is the necessary qualification for continuing to produce work of permanent value in fiction.”—Times.

“For a first novel ‘Promise’ is exceptionally able—one that should have notable successors.”—Nation.

“We are left to hope that the life of this English Jean Christophe will continue through at least another volume, filled with people as variegated and attractive as those to whom we are introduced in this.”—Spectator.

“It is difficult to imagine anything being better in its kind than ‘Promise.’ It is the account of a human life from infancy up to the early beginning of a public career—one only wishes it were to be continued in another volume!”—Chicago Evening Post.

LE GENTLEMAN:

An Idyll of the Quarter

$1.25 net, carriage extra

“‘Promise’ was a work which lived up to its name. Its successor fulfills it.”—Morning Leader.

“The scene of the final parting of Ferguson and Gilberte Morny is as fine as anything we know of in recent fiction. This is that most desirable thing—a novel that is different.”—New York Press.

HERSELF

$1.35 net, carriage extra

“The hardly and ill-used word ‘charm’ must be given its original lustre for the sake of Miss Ethel Sidgwick’s new novel ‘Herself.’ It has the power to bewitch and fascinate; odd smiles and warm tears lurk in it, and a melody played on the strings of the heart.”—Morning Post.

SUCCESSION

(A Continuation of “Promise”)

$1.50 net, carriage extra

“It places Miss Sidgwick unmistakably among the leading novelists of the day.”—Morning Post.

“A novel that leaves one remembering a chain of scenes vividly impressed, and a good dozen of characters profoundly imagined and beautifully drawn.”—Manchester Guardian.

“In the person of this young woman a new figure of unusually brilliant power has arisen in English fiction. She is the first woman novelist of the new period ... to accomplish the conquest of the American public and critics....Successionis indeed a tremendous piece of work. It is not only one of the big novels of the year, but a permanent contribution to English fiction.”—Boston Transcript.

SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, BOSTON

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