“If Miss D'Arcy can maintain this level, her future is secure. She has produced one story which comes near to being a masterpiece."—Daily Chronicle.
"We doubt if any other living woman-writer could have written quite so well."—Saturday Review.
"It is rare indeed to meet, in English. with a number of short stories of such distinction from an English pen."—Graphic.
"She expresses herself with remarkable force and point, whilst her polished refinement of style gives literary value to these clever sketches. 'Monochromes' is distinctly clever, and so well-written as to give us strong hopes of its author's future."—Speaker.
"Thoroughly interesting, and in many respects strikingly original."—Whitehall Review.
"Style, characterisation, dramatic intensity, artistic sanity, pathos and imagination—all these Miss D'Arcy has".—Echo.
"Written with much skill, observation, and style. Very interesting and well told." Westminster Gazette.
"All the stories show keen observation and literary power."—Independent.
"They are word-pictures of no little power, displaying an admirable technique in their design, treatment of light and shade, and artistic finish."—Daily Telegraph.
"Written with a powerful and masterly hand."—Academy.
"Exceedingly pleasant to read. You close the book with a feeling that you have met a host of charming people. 'Castles near Spain' comes near to being a perfect thing of its kind." Pall Mall Gazette.
They are charming stories, simple, full of freshness, with a good deal of delicate wit, both in the imagining and in the telling. The last story of the book, in spite or improbabilities quire tremendous, is a delightful story."—Daily Chronicle.
"'Castles near Spain' as a fantastic love episode is simply inimitable, and 'Mercedes' is instinct with a pretty humour and child-like tenderness that render it peculiarly–nay, uniquely–fascinating. 'Grey Roses' are entitled to rank among the choicest flowers of the realms of romance."—Daily Telegraph.
"Never before has the strange, we might almost say the weird, fascination of the Bohemianism of the Latin Quarter been so well depicted"—Whitehall Review.
"'Castles near Spain' is an altogether charming and admirable bit of romance."—Glasgow Herald.
"We envy Mr. Harland his beautiful story. ‘A Bohemian girl.'"—Literary World.
"Mr. Harland is capital company. He is always entertaining."—New Budget.
"They are gay and pathetic, and touched with the fantasy that gives to romance its finest flavour. Each has a quaintness and a grace of its own."—Daily News.
"'Castles near Spain' is a lovely idyll, in which young passion and a quaint humour are blended into a rare harmony."—Star.
Really delightful. 'Castles in Spain' is as near perfection as it well could be."—Spectator.
London: JOHN LANE, The Bodley Head.
