ALICE AND A FAMILY. 



A story of South London, by ST. JOHN G. ERVINE. 



Cr. 8vo, 6/-. 



" The book is full of character and of a kindly laughter. 

 . . . very good fun." Times Literary Supplement. 



" One of our wisest and most brilliant young novelists." 

 Daily News and Leader. 



" Mr. St. John G. Ervine is a man who commands 

 attention . ' ' British Weekly. 



" This is first-rate comedy. And it is first-rate not 

 simply because it is, from start to end, extremely enter- 

 taining, but because the material out of which this gay 

 entertainment, light and bright as a bubble, is fashioned 

 is so very much more than jokes and crochets. It is 

 material which has a distinctive and decisive reality." 

 The Manchester Guardian. 



"The dialogue of Alice and her friends is excellent. 

 There is no patronising detachment and no idealising." 

 Evening Standard and St. James's Gazette. 



" There is a beautiful humour in this story from first 

 to last, which alone ought to command a wide public for 

 it." Pall Mall Gazette. 



" Our delight in ' Alice and a Family.' . . . ' Alice 

 and a Family ' is an understanding book of the Walworth 

 Koad, the dialect of which the author knows so perfectly 

 that his characters do not merely speak it, but think in it 

 as well." Morning Post. 



" It is a tale of mean streets, but the element of mean- 

 ness is not emphasised. Rather is Mr. Ervine concerned 

 to illustrate . . . the extraordinary charity of which 

 families on the border-line of the submerged classes are 

 capable towards one another." The Spectator. 



" The experimentalising spirit of Mr. St. John Ervine 

 makes him a writer to whom we look with an interest that 

 never lessens. His plays won an appreciation keen enough ; 

 his criticism is always stimulating. His first novel, ' Mrs. 

 Martin's Man,' was an entirely admirable thing. Now 

 comes a second novel and it diverges widely from the 

 lines of the first . . . amusing, kindly, with a keen 

 thrust hi it here and there ... its assurance and lack 

 of cumbrous effect make it delightful to read." The 

 Observer. 



" With all its troubles 'Erbie's home is alive with the 

 laughter and joy of life. . . . Herein, apart from its ex- 

 cellent quality of humour, lies the merit of Mr. Ervine's 

 work.' It enables us to see the poor as individuals and not 

 as a labelled group. . . . Mr. Ervine makes the reader 

 feel that he is really learning how some of the myriad 

 unknown Londoners live, how their precarious and 

 seemingly grey existence is illumined by gaiety and 

 courage." Daily Telegraph. 



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