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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9618, 26 March 1917, Page 3

Though Mr 'William Do Morgan wrote some of the longest novels of recent times, his efforts were conciseness itself compared with the works ol some of the seventeenth century romances. Mile, de Scudery’s once famous story, “Le Grand Cyrus,” for instance, fills five folio volumes of 500 pages each in the English translation; jintMier contemporary, La Calprenedo, was oven more diffuse, his “Cleonatre" running into twenty-three volumes. The leisurely methods of the early novelists is well illustrated in ,rPafthenissa,” hy Roger Boyle, Earl ot Orrery, in which the eight hundredth page finds the two chief characters still engaged in the process of introducing themselves to each other, begun on page one(