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4 3 Newcastle Daily Chronicle.—"Mrs. Black has bright and sumptuous style. ... Her agreeable book is embellished with re- productions of photographs."

Belfast News Letter...-" The volume descrves a good word to be said of it.... Many of Mrs. Black's sketches a bound in interest. She is guilty of no error of taste. ... Cortainly many readers will welcome the little biographies of these writers."

Sheffield Independent.—“ Those who wish to know something about the lives of the literary women of the day, cannot do better than purchase this chatty volume."

Southampton Times." Notable Women Authors of the Day,' by Mrs. Helen C. Black, is one of the most interesting and attractive gift books of the season. The talented author is well known to many of our readers, not only through her success in the world of literaturc, but also from the work of benevolence and mercy which for a long series of years she has carried on in our midst for the benefit of suffering humanity, Her biographical sketches are replete with varied incident and personal reminiscence, which render them peculiarly interesting. Every one of us has his or her favourite authors, and it enhances our interest in their works to know something of them personally. Mrs. Black has afforded 11s an admirable opportunity of doing this. She brings us into pleasant and familiar acquuintance with the notable women sketched in this volume by her facilc and discriminating pen, and wide circles of readers will be charmed and delighted with her life-like pictures."

Hampshire Independent.—“Mrs. Black is already well known for and wide beyond Southampton in connection with her Cottage Hospital, founded, established, and constantly visited by her. That she is a writer of no mean mcrit is probably not so well known. But the handsome volume before us reveals the fact. It seems that Mrs. Black was for some time a contributor of biographical and descriptive sketches to the Lady's Pictorial, and these have now been revised, enlarged, and brought up to date and reprinted in book form. ... The style adopted by the writer is chatty and pleasant. . . . We cannot but enter into full sympathy with her mood. ... Truly it requires a woman to properly describe a woman, Mrs. Black has performed her task in this respect with conspicuous success. ... The subjects of the sketches stand before is distincily, while the sketches themselves are altogether of exceeding interest, and form & most attractive volume of contezuporary biography."

Kilmarnock Standard.—H. Notable Women Authors of the Day.' This beautiful volume contains twenty-six sketches which originally appeared in the Lady's Pictorial. They are well worthy of perinanent preservation in this handsome form. Exceedingly bright and readable in style, they are also full of valuable information with regard to the poprlar literature of the day, ... Altogether the work is one of exceptional interest."

Glasgow Herald...-"*Notable Women Authors of the Day,' by Helen C. Black. These sketches, which originally appeared as a series in the Lady' Pictorial, are no doubt already familiar to many readers. They are charmingly written, and as bright and attractive in point of style as they are interesting for the information which they convey, and few contributions to any of our periodicals are more deserving of republication. The volume which now contains them cannot fail to meet with a warm welcome from all who are not indifferent to contemporary literature."