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The Speaker.—'Those who most admired The Silence of Dean Maitland will find much to hold their attention, and to make them think in The World's Mercy.'

The Daily Telegraph.—'The qualities of her pen make all of Maxwell Gray's work interesting, and the charm of her writing is unalterable. If The World's Mercy is painful, it is undeniably forcible and dramatic, and it holds the reader from start to finish.'

The Chronicle.—'There is a strong and pervading charm in this new novel by Maxwell Gray It is full of tragedy and irony, though irony is not the dominant note.'

The Times.—'Its buoyant humour and lively character-drawing will be found very enjoyable.'

The Daily Mail.—'The book becomes positively great, fathoming a depth of human pathos which has not been equalled in any novel we have read for years past The House of Hidden Treasure is not a novel to be borrowed; it is a book to be bought and read, and read again and again.'

The Standard.—'The Last Sentence is a remarkable story; it abounds with dramatic situations, the interest never for a moment flags, and the characters are well drawn and consistent.'

The Daily Telegraph.—'One of the most powerful and adroitly worked-out plots embodied in any modern work of fiction runs through The Last Sentence This terrible tale of retribution is told with well-sustained force and picturesqueness, and abounds in light as well as shade.'