=The Outlook.=--‘_The Right of Way_ is the right stuff--romance the royal. It is dramatic. It abounds in good things. Its inspiration is heroic. It is a powerful and moving novel, in which strong and natural situations abound.’
=The Standard.=--‘The story deals with those strong passions and intense emotions that do not depend for their interest on the framework and setting in which they are presented. Nowhere else has the author worked with a surer touch or more careful craftsmanship. He has painted on larger canvasses, but not with so much precision of line, so much restraint, and such just harmony of tint; nor does he elsewhere exhibit an equal command of unforced pathos and genuine tragedy. The story is full of dramatic incident, ingeniously contrived.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘A fine book, stirring, dramatic, fascinating.
=The Times.=--‘Not even in _The Seats of the Mighty_ does Mr. Parker suggest such an impression of his strength as in the story which gives its title to the book. Strong and yet natural situations follow in rapid succession. In Madelinette Mr. Parker has idealized the noblest of women.’
=Literature.=--‘The short story is very seldom wrought to perfection in England, but Mr. Gilbert Parker establishes once more his claim to be one of the very few writers who make that particular literary form a thing of art. These stories are full of poetry, pathos, and dramatic force, and show a peculiar power of realising the possibilities of the short story.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
=The Daily Telegraph.=--‘Mr. Hall Caine has produced a remarkable novel.’
=The St. James’s Gazette.=--‘It is interesting, characteristic, and highly dramatic, and not too long. It is a stirring, warm-blooded story that one is sorry to have finished.’
=The Daily News.=--‘Mr. Hall Caine has written a book that will strike the popular imagination.... He introduces no subtleties into his politics. Above all, he makes his human interest clear, strong, and intelligible.’
=The Liverpool Daily Post.=--‘Hall Caine’s _Eternal City_ is a great novel, revealing the author at the very zenith of his gift.... The book’s greatest wealth is its wealth of contagious and engrossing emotion. It is a triumph of imagination, of power over the feelings, as it is of dexterously used observation of an historic and most interesting and deeply agitated people....’