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"This story strikes us as quite the best thing of its kind that has been done since 'Lorna Doone,' and is a most brisk and entertaining chapter of romance."--World.

"This is beyond all doubt the best historical story which has seen the light since Mr. R. L. Stevenson's 'Kidnapped;' and it is worthy to stand between 'Kidnapped' and that older story of which no sensible boy or man is ever tired--Charles Kingsley's 'Westward Ho!' ... It is, from every point of view, one of the most admirable and interesting historical tales written in our generation."--Academy. "If it be said that Mr. Conan Doyle has given us in 'Micah Clarke' a book for boys such as appears at rare intervals, a very inadequate idea may be given of the character and excellence of the book as a work of literature. It is the work of a literary artist, fashioned with patient and skilful labour out of solid and enduring materials, and glowing with the warmth and light and colour of imagination and humour."--Scotsman.

"'Micah Clarke' is a noticeable book, because it carries the reader out of the beaten track; it makes him now and then hold his breath with excitement; it presents a series of vivid pictures and paints two capital portraits; and it leaves upon the mind the impression of well-rounded symmetry and completeness. . . The novel with which 'Micah Clarke' challenges comparison is 'Lorna Doone;' and as a work of art we may well consider it to be superior."--R. E. PROTHERO in The Nineteenth Century for August 1889.