Excerpt from The Living Age, Vol. 269: April, May, June, 1911 Since the days when Dickens and Thackeray flourished, what enormous new fields have been opened to the nov elist! We have a whole library of books, mainly tales, about India, both of anglo-indian and of native life. Other writers deal with South Africa and Australia, and the magnetic North is not unrepresented. We have pictures of life in the slums, in Whitechapel and Poplar, in our peat manufacturing towns, and in lonely country places. The charm of Italy is not absent; Russia contributes her share; we have sketches of Jewish life, of university life, of artist life; in fact, there is hardly any field, includ ing that of religious controversy, into which the novelist has not penetrated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.