"This story, with its peaceful, almost idyllic, prelude and its cruel catastrophe, is told with faultless taste and precision, and with its mellow colouring and faithful attention to accessories, is fully worthy of the author's reputation." -"Times." "Mr. Gosse has achieved a large measure of success. There is power in this romance, the power of a skilful craftsman who has an eye for colour and the picturesque. Its attraction is to be found in the author's graceful and delicate workmanship, and in the poetical feeling ...
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"This story, with its peaceful, almost idyllic, prelude and its cruel catastrophe, is told with faultless taste and precision, and with its mellow colouring and faithful attention to accessories, is fully worthy of the author's reputation." -"Times." "Mr. Gosse has achieved a large measure of success. There is power in this romance, the power of a skilful craftsman who has an eye for colour and the picturesque. Its attraction is to be found in the author's graceful and delicate workmanship, and in the poetical feeling which runs like a vein of gold through his pages." -"Spectator." "Told with much beauty and cunning of style Narcisse and Rosalie are drawn with unerring skill and delicacy of touch A story told by an artist, and one who knows what literary style should be."- "Guardian." "Mr. Gosse, with consummate art, elicits our sympathy, and has convinced us of the tremendous tragedy The book resembles some delicate-finished, clear-coloured picture of the late Flemish painters." -"Saturday Review." "A very good matter indeed." -"Pall Mall Gazette." "Mr. Gosse's novel is, as might have been expected, perfect in its workmanship, thoroughly well conceived throughout.....A most artistically perfect piece of work." -"Black and White." "A very charming little tale for any one to have written." -"St. James's Gazette." "Like its author's poetry, it has a distinct flavour and fragrance of its own, and affords another proof (if one were needed) of the freshness and versatility of Mr. Gosse's talents." -"Athenaeum."
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