BY SNARE OF LOVE.
The _Dundee Courier_ says:--"To say that the clever author of 'When Iwas Czar' has eclipsed that stirring romance is to bring one within thesphere of the incredible. But it is true. The present novel is full tooverflowing of boundless resource and enterprise, which cannot but rouseeven the most blase of readers."
The _Daily Mail_ says:--"The story is undoubtedly clever. Mr. Marchmontcontrives to invest his most improbable episodes with an air ofplausibility, and the net result is an exciting and entertaining tale."
The _Birmingham Post_ says:--"Mr. Marchmont creates numerous thrillingsituations which are worked out with dramatic power, his description ofthe interior of a Turkish prison, with all its horrors, being arealistic piece of work."
The _Morning Post_ says:--"The book contains plenty of adventure andexcitement, and gives a further illustration of the author's dauntlessimagination."
IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM.
The _Times_:--"Mr. Marchmont's tales always have plenty of go. He iswell up to his standard in this busy and exciting narrative."
The _Globe_:--"Mr. A. W. Marchmont can always write an exciting storybristling with adventures and hazard, and incidents of all sorts. 'Inthe Cause of Freedom' furnishes a good example of his talent. Vivid,packed with drama, with action that never flags, this novel ought toappeal successfully to all lovers of romantic and spirited fiction."
_Aberdeen Free Press_:--"This is another of Mr. Marchmont's cleverstories of adventure in Russia and is further proof of his ability toweave a complicated plot in which thrilling situations are worked outwith dramatic power. The Author has succeeded in upholding hisreputation--not an easy task when his former achievements areconsidered."
The _People's Saturday Journal_:--"It is an admirable example of thetype of exciting fiction for which Mr. Marchmont is justly famous, andlacks nothing in the way of plot and incident."
THE QUEEN'S ADVOCATE.
The _Daily News_ says:--"Written in a vigorous manner, adventures throngthe pages, and the interest is maintained throughout."
The _Belfast Northern Whig_ says:--"As one book follows another from Mr.Marchmont's pen we have increased breadth of treatment, more cleverlyconstructed plots and a closer study of human life and character. Hispresent work affords ample evidence of this."
The _Sheffield Telegraph_ says:--"When we say that 'The Queen'sAdvocate' is as good as 'By Right of Sword,' we have said practicallyall that need be said in its praise. Once more Mr. Marchmont takes usaway to those Balkans that he knows so well."
A COURIER OF FORTUNE.
The _Daily Telegraph_ says:--"An exciting romance of the 'cloak andrapier.' The fun is fast and furious; plot and counterplot, ambushesand fightings, imprisonment and escapes follow each other with arapidity that holds the reader with a taste for adventure in a state ofmore or less breathless excitement to the close. Mr. Marchmont has aspirited manner in describing adventure, so that we pass on fromincident to incident, each of them having its part in the development ofaffairs which culminate in the death of the 'Tiger of Morvaix.'"
The _Bristol Mercury_ says:--"The author's characters are drawn withsuch art as to make each a distinct personality. Gabrielle is a girlwhose wits grow sharper in the emergency of the man she loves. 'ACourier of Fortune' is quite one of the liveliest books we have read."
BY WIT OF WOMAN.
The _Morning Leader_ says:--"A stirring tale of dramatic intensity, andfull of movement and exciting adventure. The author has evolved acharacter worthy to be the wife of Sherlock Holmes. She is the heroine;and what she did not know or could not find out about the HungarianPatriot Party was not worth knowing."
The _Standard_ says:--"Mr. Marchmont is one of that small band ofauthors who can always be depended upon for a distinct note, a novelplot, an original outlook. 'By Wit of Woman' is marked by all thecharacteristic signs of Mr. Marchmont's work."
THE LITTLE ANARCHIST.
The _Scotsman_ says:--"A romance, brimful of incident and arousing inthe reader a healthy interest that carries him along with never apause--a vigorous story with elements that fascinate. In invention andworkmanship the novel shows no falling off from the high standard of Mr.Marchmont's earlier books."
The _Irish Independent_:--"It is in every way worthy of Mr. Marchmont'sprevious productions. He has treated the dialogue and descriptivematter in his usual brilliant style, the plot is well developed, and thereader's interest being secured in the opening chapter is heldthroughout to the end."
_Manchester City News_ says:--"It is no whit behind its predecessors instirring episode, thrilling situation and dramatic power. The storygrips in the first few lines and holds the reader's interest until'finis' is written."
The _Sheffield Telegraph_ says:--"The reader once inveigled intostarting the first chapter is unable to put the book down until he hasturned over the last page."
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