=The Daily Chronicle.=—‘The book must be pronounced a well-nigh unqualified triumph.’
=The Literary World.=—‘_Mr. Bailey-Martin_ is one of those books whose opportune arrival serves to reconcile the critic to his task.... Bright, fresh, vigorous in action, and told with a wealth of incident and humour.’
=The New Budget=, _in a criticism on_ Mr. Percy White _as a novelist, says_—‘In my opinion, you are by far the cleverest of the younger—or shall I say, youngest?—generation of writers, with the exception, perhaps, of Mr. Street.... Your prose possesses in a high degree what I may call the lyrical note. At times you write like a poet rather than a writer of prose.... You serve in no school, and imitate no man.... In _Mr. Bailey-Martin_, though you write with an affectation of wholly dispassionate observation of your snob and his set, there is underlying that attitude a measureless contempt for your hero (if I may call him so) and his friends, which bites like an acid.’
=The National Observer.=—‘Admirably clever, and deserving to be read by those who are bored with the average novel.’
=The Bookman.=—‘One of the cleverest novels we have seen for many a day.... Take away from the average man a little of his affectation, and all his responsibilities; add some impudence, and the production of a Bailey-Martin is highly probable. We congratulate Mr. White on the vigour and vitality of his novel.’
=The Scotsman.=—‘When it is remembered that this story is told by Mr. Bailey-Martin himself, and with a great air of verisimilitude, it will be seen how able the book is as a piece of literature.... It will interest and entertain every one who takes it up.’
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.
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=The Times.=—‘All the stories are told by a man whose heart and soul are in his profession of literature.’
=The Morning Post.=—‘The discriminating will not fail to recognise in the tales composing this volume workmanship of a very high order and a wealth of imaginative fancy that is, in a measure, a revelation.’
=The Athenæum.=—‘The appearance of _Terminations_ will in no way shake the general belief in Mr. Henry James’s accomplished touch and command of material. On the contrary, it confirms conclusions long since foregone, and will increase the respect of his readers.... With such passages of trenchant wit and sparkling observation, surely in his best manner, Mr. James ought to be as satisfied as his readers cannot fail to be.’