Of the World (Volume 2); Worldly

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Excerpt: ... WORKS BY GEORGE MAC DONALD, LL.D. Each in One Volume, Frontispiece, and Uniformly Bound, Price 5s. ALEC FORBES OF HOWGLEN. No account of this story would give any idea of the profound interest that pervades the work from the first page to the laist--Athenmum. A novel of uncommon merit Sir Walter Scott said he would adviae no man to try to read 1 Clarissa Harlowe' out loud in company if he wished to keep his character for manly superiority to tears. We fancy a good many hardened old novel-readers will feel a rising in the throat as they follow the fortunes of Alec and Annie.--Pall Mall Gazette. The whole story is one of surpassing excellence and beauty.--Daily News. This book is full of good thought and good writing. Dr. Mac Donald looks In his storiea more to the souls of men and women than to their aociai outside. He reads life and Mature like a true poet'1--Examiner, ROBERT FALCONER. '1' Robert Falconer' is a work brimful of life and humour and of the deepest human interest It is a work to be returned to again and again for the deep and searching knowledge it evinces of human thoughts and feelings.--Athenmum. This story abounds in exquisite specimens of the word-painting in which Dr. Mac Donald excels, charming transcripts of Nature, full of light, air, and colour.--Saturday Review. This noble story displays to the best advantage all the powers of Dr. Mac Donald's geniuB.--Illustrated London News. 1 Robert Falconer' is the noblest work of fiction that Dr. Mac Donald has yet produced.--British Quarterly Review The dialogues in ' Robert Falconer' are so finely blended with humour and pathos as to make them in themselves an intellectual treat to which the reader returns again and again.--Spectator. DAVID ELGINBROD. A novel which is the work of a man of genius. It wil...