'A book to read, and keep and read again; for the genuine fun and pathos of it will not early lose their effect.'—Vanity Fair.
Gilbert Parker's Novels
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'Stories happily conceived and finely executed. There is strength and genius in Mr. Parker's style.'—Daily Telegraph.
'A splendid study of character.'—Athenæum.
'But little behind anything that has been done by any writer of our time.'—Pall Mall Gazette.
'A very striking and admirable novel.'—St. James's Gazette.
'The plot is original and one difficult to work out; but Mr. Parker has done it with great skill and delicacy. The reader who is not interested in this original, fresh, and well-told tale must be a dull person indeed.'—Daily Chronicle.
'Everybody with a soul for romance will thoroughly enjoy "The Trail of the Sword."'—St. James's Gazette.
'A rousing and dramatic tale. A book like this, in which swords flash, great surprises are undertaken, and daring deeds done, in which men and women live and love in the old straightforward passionate way, is a joy inexpressible to the reviewer.'—Daily Chronicle.
'Here we find romance real, breathing, living romance, but it runs flush with our own times, level with our own feelings. The character of Valmond is drawn unerringly; his career, brief as it is, is placed before us as convincingly as history itself. The book must be read, we may say re-read, for any one thoroughly to appreciate Mr. Parker's delicate touch and innate sympathy with humanity.'—Pall Mall Gazette.
'The one work of genius which 1895 has as yet produced.'—New Age.
'The present book is full of fine and moving stories of the great North, and it will add to Mr. Parker's already high reputation.'—Glasgow Herald.
'The best thing he has done; one of the best things that any one has done lately.'—St. James's Gazette.
'Mr. Parker seems to become stronger and easier with every serious novel that he attempts…. In "The Seats of the Mighty" he shows the matured power which his former novels have led us to expect, and has produced a really fine historical novel…. Most sincerely is Mr. Parker to be congratulated on the finest novel he has yet written.'—Athenæum.
'Mr. Parker's latest book places him in the front rank of living novelists. "The Seats of the Mighty" is a great book.'—Black and White.
'One of the strongest stories of historical interest and adventure that we have read for many a day…. A notable and successful book.'—Speaker.
'An admirable romance. The glory of a romance is its plot, and this plot is crowded with fine sensations, which have no rest until the fall of the famous old city and the final restitution of love.'—Pall Mall Gazette.
