"SPLENDID JOY"
A CLERICAL BENEDICTION. " 'Splendid Joy' is a novel good to read. It does not leave an unpleasant memory. The" story is real. There is the surprise a:id sadness of life, but there is also the sound of merry laughter. The characters ■ aro not manufactured models, but living human beings. Jim, the sick boy, must certainly have been drawn from life. Ho is described with a caressing tenderness," writes the Eev. J. C. 'Carlilo in tho "Baptist Times." > , /'We wonder whether in real existence Jim was tho author's brother The' story of Martin Eoyce, the popul lar author who had arrived, the man with, the will to achieve, who made up his mind and carried out his plans, is told with increasing interest, and Clare, who became his wife, is really y flesh and blood. "We must havo met her, though we did not know the 1 tragedy concealed in her laughing eyes. It is a book to bo lead, and, no doubt, will bo remembered."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1927, Page 20
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