SOURCE: "Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins," in Gods of Modern Grub Street: Impressions of Contemporary Authors, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1923, pp. 123-30.

In the following excerpt, Adcoek favorably assesses Hope's work after The Prisoner of Zenda, a novel that Adcoek believes overshadowed unfairly Hope's other fiction.

The dawn of the present century brought with it what critics, who like to have such matters neat and orderly, delight to call a romantic revival in fiction. As a matter of fact, it also brought with it a revival of realism, and both had really started before the century began, and have continued to advance together ever since on pretty equal terms. In the 1890's Gissing was nearing the end of his career, but the torch of realism was being carried on by Hubert Crackanthorpe (who died too soon), by Arnold Bennett, Arthur Morrison, Pett Ridge, Edwin Pugh, George Moore, Oliver...