ecade; the best thing in fiction since Mr.
Meredith and Mr. Hardy; must take its place as the first great
English novel that has appeared in the twentieth century."--Lewis
Melville in _New York Times Saturday Review_.

"If the reader likes both 'David Copperfield' and 'Peter Ibbetson,'
he can find the two books in this one."--_The Independent._

WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S ALICE-FOR-SHORT

This might paradoxically be called a genial ghost-and-murder story, yet
humor and humanity again dominate, and the most striking element is the
touching love story of an unsuccessful man. The reappearance in
Nineteenth Century London of the long-buried past, and a remarkable case
of suspended memory, give the dramatic background.

"Really worth reading and praising ... will be hailed as a
masterpiece. If any writer of the present era is read a half
century hence, a quarter century, or even a decade, that writer is
William De Morgan."--_Boston Transcript._

"It is the Victorian age itself that speaks in those rich,
interesting, over-crowded books.... Will be remembered as Dickens'
novels are remembered."--_Springfield Republican._

WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S SOMEHOW GOOD

The purpose and feeling of this novel are intense, yet it is all
mellowed by humor, and it contains perhaps the author's freshest and
most sympathetic story of young love. Throughout its pages the "God be
praised evil has turned to good" of the old Major rings like a trumpet
call of hope. This story of to-day tells of a triumph of courage and
devotion.

"A book as sound, as sweet, as wholesome, as wise, as any in the
range of fiction."--_The Nation._

"Our older novelists (Dickens and Thackeray) will have to look to
their laurels, for the new one is fast proving himself their equal.
A higher quality of enjoyment than is derivable from the work of
any other novelist now living and active in either England or
America."--_The Dial._

WILLIAM DE MORGAN'S IT NEVER CAN HAPPEN AGAIN

This novel turns on a strange marital complication, and is notable for
two remarkable women characters, the pathetic girl Lizarann and the
beautiful Judith Arkroyd, with her stage ambitions. Lizarann's father,
Blind Jim, is very appealingly drawn, and shows rare courage and
devotion despite cruel handicaps. There are strong dramatic episodes,
and the author's inevitable humor and optimism.