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his best. The picture he gives us here of the 

 Enticknapp household, with its Moravian and 

 Quaker traditions, is one nearly perfect of its kind 

 for sobriety of taste and freedom from all senti- 

 mental exaggerations. In Lois Enticknapp, in 

 particular, who is the real heroine of the tale, we 

 have a very fine type of spiritual excellence, and 

 she wins our sympathies so entirely that we are 

 inclined to resent and protest against the cruel and 

 all but crushing sorrow which the author is hard- 

 hearted enough to have in reserve for her. The 

 story of Lydia Calderwood, again, is natural and 

 very well managed ; nor can its theme, though an 

 unpleasant one, be justly held out of place in a 

 novel of the peculiar character of this." Graphic. 



"'The House by the Works' is, we think, the 

 ripest of all the writings by the same hand, yielding 

 itself less than some of the earlier ones to reflection, 

 but presenting a masterly picture of life, relieved 

 by lessons developed through fine character and 

 fine influences dramatically justified and exhibited 

 in action with the utmost faithfulness. What the 

 author describes has been felt and known, not only 

 in a general way, but down to circumstantials in 

 some cases. We not only listen to a description 

 of Perford with its industry and wealth, but are 

 made to see it, and to see it with the help of an 

 expert guide who can not only comment on the 

 people, but unfold to us their inner motives. Lois 

 Enticknapp and her mother Lois, half-Quaker, 

 half-Moravian, is one of the most original concep- 

 tions we remember, and Lydia Calderwood, an 

 unfortunate, who, however, deserved to be fortunate, 



