The Champagne Standard Part 17

"Dip where one will into her startling pages one is certain to find entertainment, and the charm is much a.s.sisted by the delightful ill.u.s.trations."--_Daily Telegraph._

"'Kitwyk' is destined to be in fiction what an old Dutch master painter is in painting--a work at once typical of kind, unique of ent.i.ty. The design of this charming book is original. All the people are alive in the not wonderful but strangely engrossing story, which is so comical and pathetic, so quaint and 'racy of the soil,' so wide in sympathy, so narrow of stage. All the drawings are excellent."--_World._

"Very charming. Admirers will say, not without reason, that 'Kitwyk'

recalls 'Cranford.'"--_Standard._

"A charming book; resting to read. It has style, and is written with a whimsical humour which gives it distinction."--_Westminster Gazette._

"There is delicious humor, not only of incident, but of phrase and expression. We should be glad of a second series."--_Literary World._

"'Kitwyk' is the daintiest morsel of idyllic fiction we have had since Mr. Barrie opened that wonderful window in 'Thrums.' Few books are so exquisitely wrought; so cunningly polished."--_Mr. James Douglas in The Star._

"The Dutch kingdom is enchanting, and Mrs. John Lane's charming book will help to make the fact more widely known."--_Gentlewoman._

"We have only faintly indicated what a vein of jest and humour Mrs. John Lane possesses."--_The Echo._

"This is a most graceful and altogether charming Dutch version of Auld Licht Idylls. If such a village and such people, and such quaint causes of laughter and of tears do indeed exist, then Kitwyk were well worth visiting, but the next best thing is to read Mrs. John Lane's prettily bound and ill.u.s.trated little volume."--_Scotsman._