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Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Zorastro : a romance / by Creswick J. Thompson [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![^tie Jiedurrection of jff/4 *Srace. Being the very candid Confessions of the Honourable Bertie Beauclerc. A Sporting Novel. By Campbell Rae-Brown, Author of “Richard Barlow,” “Kissing Cup’s Race,” etc. Second Im- pression. Crown 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d. Gentlewoman.—“ Fantastic and impossible, but at the same time amusing. . . . The whole story is strongly dramatic.” Saturday Review.—“A grotesquely improbable story, but readers of sporting novels will find much amusement in it.” Scotsman.—“The book is lightly and briskly written throughout. Its pleasant cynicism is always entertaining.” Star.—“An ingeniously horrible story with a diabolically clever plot.” St James’S Budget.—“A sporting romance which is indisputably cleverly written. . . . The book is full of interesting items of sporting life which are fascinating to lovers of the turf.” Edinburgh Evening News.—“ It has certainly an audacious idea for its central motive. . . . This bright idea is handled with no little skill, and the interest is kept up breathlessly until the tragic end of the experiment. The whole story has a racy flavour of the turf.” Sporting Life.—“The character of the heartless roue, who tells his story, is very well sustained, and the rich parvenu, Peter Drewitt, the owner of the favourite that is very nearly nobbled by the unscrupulous Beauclerc, is cleverly drawn. Altogether it is an exciting and an uncommon tale, and is quite correct in all the sporting details.” $nna 9iiar6den Experiment An Interesting Novel. By Ellen Williams. Crown 8vo, art cloth, 2s. 6d. Outlook.—“A good story cleverly told and worked out.” Echo.—“A very natural and interesting tale is carefully set forth in Ellen Williams’ clever little book. Western Morning News.—“ It is a smartly written and deeply interesting story, well out of the beaten track of novelists.” Literary World.—“ The story is well told. . . . Four racy chapters take us thus far, and seven lively ones follow.” Public Opinion.—“ From this point the interest in the story is such that there is no putting the book down till the denouement is reached. The writing is smart, clever, and telling.” Critic.—“A powerful story, unconventional as regards both subiect and treatment [Here the reviewer analyses the plot.] This situation is handled'with extraordinary delicacy and skill, and the book is an admirable study of repressed emotions. Monitor.—“ Miss Williams has here seized on an original concept, and given it fitting presentation. The ‘ experiment ’ is a novel one, and its working out is a deft piece of writing. The psychology of the work is faultless, and this study of a beautiful tempera- ment, in a crude frame, has with it the verity of deep observation and acute insight. We await with considerable confidence Miss Williams’ next venture.” Sheffield Independent.—“ The writer has treated a delicate and unusual situation with delicacy and originality. The heroine’s character is drawn with firmness and clear- ness, and the whole story is vivid and picturesque. . . . The history of the experiment is exceedingly well told. Keen insight into character, and cleverness in its delineation as well as shrewd observation and intense sympathy, mark the writer’s work, while the style is terse and clear, and the management of trying scenes extremely good.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2488439x_0299.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
