BEATRICE WHITBY'S NOVELS 



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THE AWAKENING OF MARY FENWICK 



' We have no hesitation in declaring that " The Awakening of Mary Fen wick" is the 

 beat novel of its kind that we have seen for Borne years. The story is extremely simple. 

 Mary Manser marries her husband for external, and perhaps rather inadequate, reasons, 

 and then discovers that he married her because she was an heiress. She feels the indignity 

 acutely, and does not scruple to tell him her opinion her very candid opinion of his 

 behaviour. Marj- Feuwick and her husband live and move and make us believe in them 

 in a way which few but the great masters of fiction have been able to compass.' Athenaeum. 



ONE REASON WHY 



4 The governess makes a re-entry into fiction under the auspices of Beatrice Whitby in 

 " One Reason Why." Readers generally, however, will take a great deal more interest, 

 for once, in the children than in their instructress. " Bay " and u Ellie " are charmingly 

 natural additions to the children of novel-land; so much so, that there is a period when 

 one dreadi a death-bed scene for one of them a fear which is happily unfulfilled ' 

 Graphic. 



PART OF THE PROPERTY 



4 The book is a thoroughly good one. The theme is fairly familiar the rebellion of a 

 spirited girl against a match which has been arranged for her without her knowledge or 

 consent; her resentment of being treated, not as a woman with a heart and will, but as 

 'part of the property ;" and her final discovery, which is led up to with real dramatic 

 skill, that the thing against which her whole nature had risen in revolt has become the 

 one deaire of her heart.' Spectator. 



IN THE SUNTIME OF HER YOUTH 



The careless optimism of the head of the family would be incredible, if we did not know 

 how men exist full of responsibilities yet free from solicitudes, and who tread with a 

 jaunty step the very verge of ruin; his inconsolable widow would be equally improbable, 

 if we did not meet every day with women who devote themselves to such idols of clay. 

 There in interest in it from first to last, and its pathos is relieved by touches of true 

 IT.' Illustrated London News. 



MARY FENWICK'S DAUGHTER 



This is one of the most delightful novels we have read for a long time. " Bab " FOH- 

 wick is an '-out of door" kind of girl, full of spirit, wit, go, and sin, both original and 

 acquired. Her lover, Jack, is all that a hero should be, and great and magnanimous as he 

 is, finds some difficulty in forgiving the insouciante mistress all her little sins of omission 

 and commission. The whole is admirable ' Black and White, 



A MATTER OF SKILL 



'Thetitla story, showing how a stately girl is captured after a good deal of trouble, 

 by a short and commonplace young man, is very amusing ; and there are other sketches 

 in which it is interesting to follow the wiles of Mother Eve ere she haa come to years of 

 discretion.' Academy. 



SUNSET 



4 We weleome such a story as Sunset." It is slightly sentimental as one would gues 

 from its title, but never mawkish, and it is illumined by flashes of humour, as well as by 

 some occasional reflections that exhibit a close acquaintance with human nature.'/?* 

 Timu. 



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