Publisher's Synopsis
The thrifty plan of giving us sermons, poli tics, fiction, all in one stodgy sandwich, produces no permanent literature, produces but tempo rary 'tracts for the times.' Fortunately we have among us many novelists - young ones, luckily - who are true to the primitive and eternal, the Fijian canons of fiction. We have Oriental romance from the author of 'plain Tales from the Hills.' We have the humor and tenderness - certainly not Fijian, I admit which produces that masterpiece A Window in Thrums we have the adventurous fancy that gives us A Gentleman of France, ' The Master of Ballantrae, ' Micah Clarke, ' 'the Raiders, ' The Prisoner of Zenda.' The last of these books was by Anthony Hope Hawkins, whom Mr. Lang thus classed among potential immortals. This romance has made him within the last three months fairly famous. Walter Besant, too, has stamped it with his high approval, and the English and American press have been unusually unanimous in their praise.This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
