AUTHOR OF 'OH, WHAT A PLAGUE IS LOVE!'


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'Here, among the hosts of ladies who write with care and inelegance,
comes a woman artist. "An Isle in the Water" is a collection of fifteen
well-conceived and excellently-finished Irish stories, for which it
would be hard to find anything to say but praise. They are all extremely
short for the force of their effect, and every touch tells; they are
gracefully phrased without an appearance of artifice, subtly expressed
without a suspicion of affectation.'--_Saturday Review._

'I venture to assert that in any one of its fifteen tales there is a
finer rendering of the very essence of Irish life and character than in
any half-dozen of the books which are responsible for the conception of
the conventional Pat or Biddy which has had such a long and prosperous
vogue on this side of the Channel. The book owes its momentum to its
fascinating and powerful rendering of the pathos and the tragedy of the
simple lives with which the writer deals. But this fascination and power
are far too obvious to stand in need of celebration.'--_New Age._

'Any faults the book may have are redeemed by a page torn from the
authoress's own heart. "Changing the Nurseries" is a chapter no woman,
mother, or maid could read without a lump in her throat. The strong
maternal element, which is the chief virtue of the Irish, is rife in it,
and the thousand and one little trivialities that our life is made up of
are admirably commented upon.'--_St. James's Budget._