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‘Mrs. Hungerford has well deserved the title of being one of the mostfascinating novelists of the day. The stories written by her are the airiest,lightest, and brightest imaginable, full of wit, spirit, and gaiety; but they contain,nevertheless, touches of the most exquisite pathos. There is somethinggood in all of them.’—Academy.
A MAIDEN ALL FORLORN, and other Stories. Post8vo., illustrated boards, 2s.; cloth limp, 2s. 6d.
‘There is no guile in the novels of the authoress of “Molly Bawn,” nor anyconsistency or analysis of character; but they exhibit a faculty truly remarkablefor reproducing the rapid small-talk, the shallow but harmless “chaff” of certainstrata of modern fashionable society.’—Spectator.
IN DURANCE VILE, and other Stories. Post 8vo.,illustrated boards, 2s.; cloth limp, 2s. 6d.
‘Mrs. Hungerford’s Irish girls have always been pleasant to meet upon thedusty pathways of fiction. They are flippant, no doubt, and often sentimental,and they certainly flirt, and their stories are told often in rather ornamentalphrase and with a profusion of the first person singular. But they are charmingall the same.’—Academy.
A MENTAL STRUGGLE. Post 8vo., illustrated boards,2s.; cloth limp, 2s. 6d.
‘She can invent an interesting story, she can tell it well, and she trusts tohonest, natural, human emotions and interests of life for her materials.’—Spectator.
A MODERN CIRCE. Post 8vo., illustrated boards, 2s.;cloth limp, 2s. 6d.
‘Mrs. Hungerford is a distinctly amusing author.... In all her books thereis a “healthy absenteeism” of ethical purpose, and we have derived more genuinepleasure from them than probably the most earnest student has ever obtainedfrom a chapter of “Robert Elsmere.”’—Saturday Review.
MARVEL. Post 8vo., illustrated boards, 2s.; cloth, 2s. 6d.
‘The author has long since created an imaginary world, peopled with more orless natural figures; but her many admirers acknowledge the easy grace and inexhaustibleverve that characterize her scenes of Hibernian life, and never tire ofthe type of national heroine she has made her own.’—Morning Post.
LADY VERNER’S FLIGHT. Crown 8vo., cloth extra,3s. 6d.; post 8vo., illustrated boards, 2s.; cloth limp, 2s. 6d.
‘There are in “Lady Verner’s Flight” several of the bright young people whoare wont to make Mrs. Hungerford’s books such very pleasant reading.... Inall the novels by the author of “Molly Bawn” there is a breezy freshness of treatmentwhich makes them most agreeable.’—Spectator.
THE RED-HOUSE MYSTERY. Crown 8vo., clothextra, 3s. 6d.
‘Mrs. Hungerford is never seen to the best advantage when not dealing withthe brighter sides of life, or seeming to enjoy as much as her readers the readysallies and laughing jests of her youthful personages. In her present novel, however,the he