Talk:The Heart of Miranda (Collection)

Review from the Outlook (US), 15 July 1899
Mr. H. B. Marriott Watson made his first success as a novel-writer in the dashing and brilliant stories of eighteenth-century life called "Galloping Dick," in which figured highwaymen, court beauties, Charles II. in disguise, and a bishop in the forced rôle of a highwayman. Since that book, which in its own peculiar way was a really strong and striking piece of writing, Mr. Watson seems to lay greater stress on refinement of style than on the substance of his stories; in his new book, The Heart of Miranda, he seems continually to be posing, and the reader finds his excursions into the realm of the impossible and the fanciful not as exciting or powerful as the author appears to think them. If Mr. Watson would take the trouble to return to direct and objective methods, he certainly would have a future as a writer of English fiction. (John Lane, New York.)