Excerpt from In a Green Shade: A Country Commentary The title has become equivocal, since there are more green shades in employment now than were dreamed of by Andrew Marvell. Science is a great maker of homophones, without respect for the poets. There is, for instance, the demilune of lined buckram borne by the weak-eyed on their foreheads, the phylactery of the have-beens - I lay myself open to be believed a cripple, or to look an old fool. A vivacious reviewer in Punch's "Booking Office," will have a vision of me as a babbling elder peering at society from below a green pent. However -...
Excerpt from In a Green Shade: A Country Commentary The title has become equivocal, since there are more green shades in employment now than were ...
"Mr. Hewlett is one of those rare and happy authors who make niches for themselves quite apart from the ordinary trend of literature, where invidious comparisons cannot reach them. The quaint, mediaeval quality of his 'Forest Lovers ' has cast its spell over countless readers even while they questioned wherein that spell could lie. And so it is with his latest volume." -"Commercial Advertiser." "The range of his art would alone proclaim his remarkable quality as an author.... But what impresses the reader in Mr. Hewlett's scope is not merely its inclusion of many types and passions,...
"Mr. Hewlett is one of those rare and happy authors who make niches for themselves quite apart from the ordinary trend of literature, where invidious ...
Excerpt from Rest Harrow: A Comedy of Resolution An observant traveller, homing to England by the Ostend-Dover packet in the April of some five years ago, relished the vagaries of a curious couple who arrived by a later train, and proved to be both of his acquaintance. He had happened to be early aboard, and saw them come on. They were a lady of some personal attraction, comfortably furred, who, descending from a first-class carriage, was met by a man from a third-class, bare-headed, free in the neck, loosely clad in grey flannel trousers which flapped about his thin legs in the...
Excerpt from Rest Harrow: A Comedy of Resolution An observant traveller, homing to England by the Ostend-Dover packet in the April of some five ye...
"There is a freshness, a vivacity about the narrative itself, as well as about the style, that carries the reader more or less breathlessly along from one thrilling scene to another, and leaves him at the end with little disposition to lay down the book. We sincerely commiserate the jaded reader who cannot find amusement in 'The Forest Lovers.' " "-The Critic. " "Mr. Hewlett has produced the most strikingly poetical and original novel that has seen the light for a long time." "-Review of Reviews. " "The plot is boldly conceived and strongly sustained; the characters arc...
"There is a freshness, a vivacity about the narrative itself, as well as about the style, that carries the reader more or less breathlessly along from...
