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NE of the very rarests products of nature and grace—a woman of genius, one who, I am bound to confess, has falsified the assertion I made some time ago that no female writer of our time has attained to true "distinction"— in the Fortnightly Review.

The writing is limpid in its depths.—George Meredith.

Exercises in close thinking and expert expression almost unique in the literature of the day.—Athenæum.

The most stimulating Essays that have appeared since Mr. Stevenson delighted us with his Virginibus Puerisque. To appreciate them is a step forward in education.—The Guardian.

Critical studies concerned strictly with the craft of which she is herself a master. I am soberly convinced that the prose of Alice Meynell is absolutely the most perfect produced in our language for at least the last twenty years.— in The Manchester Guardian.

It is criticism of character; what she seeks and what she discover is the moral value of her subject.—New Statesman.