First Person Paramount Part 44

Nikola has become familiar to every reader of fiction."

MY INDIAN QUEEN.

The Sunday Special says:--"'My Indian Queen' shows Mr. Boothby at his best. A vivid story of adventure and daring, bearing all the characteristics of careful workmans.h.i.+p."

LONG LIVE THE KING.

The Aberdeen Free Press says:--"It is marvellous that Mr. Boothby's novels should all be so uniformly good. The story is written in Mr.

Boothby's best style, and is full of interest from start to finish."

A PRINCE OF SWINDLERS.

The Scotsman says:--"Of absorbing interest. The exploits are described in an enthralling vein."

A MAKER OF NATIONS.

The Spectator says:--"'A Maker of Nations' enables us to understand Mr.

Boothby's vogue. It has no lack of movement or incident."

THE RED RAT'S DAUGHTER

The Daily Telegraph says:--"Mr. Guy Boothby's name on the t.i.tle-page of a novel carries with it the a.s.surance of a good story to follow. This sprightly imaginative writer's latest romance is a clever and fascinating narrative."

LOVE MADE MANIFEST.

The Daily Telegraph says:--"A powerful and impressive romance. One of those tales of exciting adventure in the confection of which Mr.

Boothby is not excelled by any novelist of the day."

PHAROS THE EGYPTIAN.

The Scotsman says:--"This powerful novel is weird, wonderful, and soul-thrilling. There never was in this world so strange and wonderful a love story, and Mr. Boothby's admirers will probably agree that the most marvellous fiction he has ever produced is 'Pharos the Egyptian.'"

ACROSS THE WORLD FOR A WIFE.

The British Weekly says:--"This stirring tale ranks next to 'Dr.

Nikola' in the list of Mr. Boothby's novels. It is an excellent piece of workmans.h.i.+p, and we can heartily recommend it."

A SAILOR'S BRIDE.

The Manchester Courier says:--"Few authors can depict action as brilliantly and resourcefully as the creator of 'Dr. Nikola.'"

THE l.u.s.t OF HATE.

The Daily Graphic says:--"Mr. Boothby gives place to no one in what might be called dramatic interest, so whoever wants dramatic interest let him read 'The l.u.s.t of Hate.'"

THE FASCINATION OF THE KING.

The Bristol Mercury says:--"Unquestionably the best work we have yet seen from the pen of Mr. Guy Boothby.... 'The Fascination of the King'

is one of the books of the season."

DR. NIKOLA.

The Scotsman says:--"One hairbreadth escape succeeds another with rapidity that scarce leaves the reader breathing s.p.a.ce.... The interest of their experience is sufficient to stay criticism, and carry him through a story ingeniously invented and skilfully told."

THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE DEVIL.

The Yorks.h.i.+re Post says:--"A more exciting romance no man could reasonably ask for."

A BID FOR FORTUNE.

The Manchester Courier says:--"It is impossible to give any idea of the verve and brightness with which the story is told. Mr. Boothby may be congratulated on having produced about the most original novel of the year."

IN STRANGE COMPANY.

The World says:--"A capital novel. It has the quality of life and stir, and will carry the reader with curiosity unabated to the end."

THE MARRIAGE OF ESTHER.

_The Manchester Guardian_ says:--"A story full of action, life, and dramatic interest. There is a vigour and a power of illusion about it that raises it quite above the level of the ordinary novel of adventure."

BUs.h.i.+GRAMS.

The Manchester Guardian says:--"Intensely interesting. Forces from us, by its powerful artistic realism, those choky sensations which it should be the aim of the human writer to elicit, whether in comedy or tragedy."

SHEILAH McLEOD.

Mr. W. L. Alden in The New York Times, says:--"Mr. Boothby can crowd more adventure into a square foot of canvas than any other novelist."

DR. NIKOLA'S EXPERIMENT.

Ill.u.s.trated by Sidney Cowell.

JOSEPH HOCKING

ROGER TREWINION.

T. P.'s Weekly says:--"It is a foregone conclusion that Mr. Hocking will always have a good story to tell. 'Roger Trewinion' can stand forth with the best, a strong love interest, plenty of adventure, an atmosphere of superst.i.tion, and Cornwall as the scene. And the scenes of lawlessness, the curse of hatred between two brothers, the greed of a selfish mother, and the steadfastness of a sweetheart withdrawn from a grave, all serve to lead, in a series of graphically and finely written scenes, to the conclusion that 'there's no curse can stand against love.'"

THE COMING OF THE KING.

The Glasgow Herald says:--"Mr. Hocking's latest romance exhibits no diminution of ability, and is marked by insight and dramatic power. His imagination is fertile, and his skill in the arrangement of incident far above the average, and there is an air of reality in all his writing which is peculiarly charming. The author steadily but surely engages our attention, and we pa.s.s from episode to episode with a deepening sense of the reality of the tale. This is art of no common order."

ESAU.

The Outlook says:--"Remarkable for the dramatic power with which the scenes are drawn and the intense human interest which Mr. Hocking has woven about his characters. 'Esau' is sure to be one of the novels of the season."

The British Weekly says:--"A brilliant, exciting narrative by a writer who has never penned a dull page."