“Fairly entitled to the rank and dignity of an English classic.  Plot, style and truthfulness are of the soundest British character.  Racy, idiomatic, mirror-like, always interesting, suggesting thought on the knottiest social and religious questions, now deeply moving by its unconscious pathos, and anon inspiring uproarious laughter, it is a work the world will not willingly let die.”—­N.Y.  Christian Advocate.