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As a writer of Action Mrs. .Oliphant lias few equals,' . and to show.v.what.:isthoughty. ofi her works by the leading .English newspapers, we extract a few opinions on some of her previoua noveis • y Vi.THE GREATEST'HEIRESS IN ENGLAND."' - every personage in tho book is delineated : 'witht;'as''• much-'dramatic power and humour as .tale^is;as. veritable a chapter of the Ihuman comedyV as'any that Balzac ever wrote, and vit is. pervaded-by.\a.'realism scarcely, less powerful, [•.though mu*h more'refined."—Scotsman. Few other-novelists write so much; not half of jthem.'write half so.*well. Mrs. Oliphaot's distinction I ;'as a novelist is something like that which Mr. Mat[{thewTArnoldclaims for Wordsworth as a poet; it • rests on the great body of good work which she has <produced. ; ; ( ;: Her stories are generally well conceived • aad ably worked out, with vory few signs of hurry or among her characters there is usually 'some original figure who takes a firm hold on the reader's memory; nobody can say that her books are dull.and nobody could trace in them anything but an elevating tendency or find a s'ngle line written in bad ' taste."—Athenn»um.' • • •A ;'..^ 4 Which of Mrs-:Oliphant's qualities are most remarkable?;-' Iter rapidity of production, and, considering that rapidity, the average excellence of her work, aro scarcely more surprising than the fertility of k»r mind in constructing stories and varying character."— •Daily News. ' : We find in it a nature and insight, a freshness and humour; which prove her to be in the vein. . She has hit on a congenial subject."—Saturday Review. "It is curious to observe how far superior Mrs. is to most lady novelists in her analysis of ■ male character, even in many respects to George Eliot herself. Her men, in fact, are thoroughly real, not impossible enthusiasts like Daniel Deronda, nor poetic youths with fail hair like Ladislaw ; but such men as we come across daily, moving, speaking, and thinking naturally, and without any assumption of excessive virtue on the one hand, nor descent to the depth of selfishness or vice ou the other."—Examiner. " All healthy constituted minds, as children and savages prove, delight in stories of what has happened to people resembling themselves; and it is this recreation that Mrs. Oliphant provides in it 3 least ' elaborate form • .■■.*. The kindly spirit in which she writes is apreat element in the pleasantness cf her books."—Pall Mall Gazette. .'•Mrs. Oliphant's newest novel atta?ts her inexhaustfble versatility in plot-weaving, if it does not rival 4 Young Musgrave' and some of her later werks in sustained and romantic interest.Academy. "HARRY JOSCELYN." " '• Mrs. Oliphant has great versatility of imagination and a happy power of drawing on her memory for details, in painting both pecple and places after naturo. In 'Harry Joscelyn* &he makes judicious use cf sharp and telling contrasts. Nothing ran be better than her pictures of the bleak Cumberland fella and their rough inhabitants, except her clover sketches of Anglo-Italian life in Leghorn."—Times. ''Of character-painting, and that of an admirable kind, there is a great deal. More than in any of the works that Mrs. Oliphant has produced in such amazing fertility since she took to writing in a hurry, we seo the hand of the authoress of * The .Chronicles of Carlingford/ and recognise the farreaching eye which sees much where nobody else would see anything at all."—Graphic. .. • '• Her namo on the titie-paee is a guarantee that the book \» ill be free from faults of style, plot, and composition to which.inferior authors are liable."— Spectator. " Mrs. Olijihant's reauer3 know what is in store for them when they open her volumes, and 'Harry Joscelyn will not disappoint them."—Saturday Review. 1 THE*CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD." ** NVe must pronounce these Carlingford series tho best contributions to fiction of recent years. Lively, pregnant, and rich in imagination, feeliug, and elo- . quenco, they will irresistibly carry to the end every reader who ventures uv-on them."—Spectator. (-Sfdeu> Chapel'), so fresh, so powerfully written', and so tragic, stands out from amongst its fellows liko a picoa ot uewly-coined cold in a handful of dim commonplace shillings. Tales of pastoral experience and scenes from clerical lifo we have htd in plenty; but the sacred things of the conventicle, the relative position of pastor and flock in a Nonconforming connection were but guessed at by the world outside, and terrible is the revelation."—Westminster Review. The publication of *' Sir Tom" will be commenced in this paper Os SATURDAY, MAY 12.'- - 1