’Essentially interesting and well written.’—­British Review.

’A cleaner book, and one more free, in spite of its motif, from the trail of the sex-serpent, we scarcely remember to have read....  We need more such idealists ... to show us some of the good that is left in the world.’—­Blackwood’s Magazine.

’The picture furnished of India, of its people and their ways, and of the terrible experiences of the Mutiny period, is an admirable bit of strong literary work.’—­Belfast News Letter.

’It is a platitude that, to be worth reading, a Mutiny story must be unquestionably good.  The standard is high, but Mr. Irwin’s book comes up to it, and fully satisfies the most exacting test’—­The Pioneer, Allahabad.

A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.

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THE LIFEGUARDSMAN.

ADAPTED FROM SCHIMMEL’S ‘DE KAPTEIN VAN DE LIJFGARDE.’

Crown 8vo, cloth, price 6s.

’It is a work of remarkable power and sustained interest.  Right to the end the interest is maintained, and it is not over-estimating the work to say that few historical novels published within recent years are superior to this adaptation of the Dutchman’s story.’—­Scotsman.

’It is primarily a romance, a story of thrilling adventure, and moves forward with dramatic spirit from point to point.’—­Illustrated London News.

’We have no other novel giving so intimate an account of how things fell out, and what obscure events and persons helped and hindered the overthrow of James II.  But the chief interest of the book turns round the private person, the Lifeguardsman, not all a hero, mistaken, erring, unfortunate, yet a brave man, and of the kind that stirs our sympathies more than do immaculate heroes.’—­Bookman.

’The work is characterised by great dash and vigour, and the principal characters in the story are strongly drawn, while the incidents are woven so skilfully together that the reader is carried with absorbing interest to the close.’—­Western Times.

’English readers are under a considerable debt of gratitude to the anonymous translator who has given them a version in the vernacular of Schimmel’s “De Kaptein van de Lijfgarde.”  “The Lifeguardsman” is a historical novel of very unusual power and fidelity.  In detail and habit the scenes and people of that troublous period are “reconstituted” here with remarkable skill.’—­Belfast Northern Whig.

’We do not often get the pleasure of handling such a lively and thrilling story, and can feel a due measure of gratitude for the anonymous “mere adapter” to whose discernment and enterprise we are indebted for having brought it to our notice.’—­Literary World.

A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.