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Into the Highways & Hedges
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Into the Highways & Hedges by F. F. Montrésor, Seventh Edition
London 1896
“Let a man contend to the uttermost for his life’s set prize, be it what it will.”
A Few Press Opinions on Into the Highways and Hedges
Academy - “This book is so admirably conceived and written that Mr. Montrésor’s next venture must excite unusual interest.”
Speaker - “This book will undoubtedly rank high amongst the notable novels of 1895.”
Athenæum - “Whoever wrote ‘Into the Highways and Hedges’ wrote no common novel. A touch of idealism, of nobility of thought and purpose, mingled with an air of reality and well-chosen expression, are the most notable features of a book that has not the ordinary defects of such qualities. With all its elevation of utterance and spirituality of outlook and insight it is wonderfully free from overstrained or exaggerated matter, and it has glimpses of humour. Most
of the characters are vivid, yet there is restraint and sobriety in their treatment.”
Daily Telegraph - “This exceptionally noble and stirring book. Recounted with unflagging verve and vigour, we unhesitatingly say that it has hardly a dull or superfluous page.”
New Age - “A remarkably strong novel. I often thought of George Eliot when reading this book, which I advise every one to read.” (_Katherine Tynan._)
Manchester Courier - “Mr. Montrésor’s next book will be eagerly awaited by all those who make the acquaintance of his first, for a more strikingly original or a stronger novel has not appeared for some time.”
World - “‘Into the Highways and Hedges’ would have been a remarkable work of fiction at any time; it is phenomenal at this, for it is neither trivial, eccentric, coarse, nor pretentious, but the opposite of all these, and a very fine and lofty conception. The man is wonderfully drawn, realised with a masterly completeness, and the woman is worthy of him. The whole of the story is admirably conceived and sustained. A wonderful book.”
Glasgow Herald - “This is a remarkable and powerful book, which is likely to leave a strong impression of itself upon every intelligent reader. One of the most interesting novels that one has seen for some time.”
Manchester Guardian - “The characters are conceived strongly. Since the days of Dinah Morris there has not, perhaps, been quite so successful a portrait of a man or woman consumed by the passion of humanity. The dialogue throughout the book is excellent.”
Preface.
This is not meant to be a controversial novel. I by no means agree with all Barnabas Thorpe’s opinions. Nevertheless I believe that the men who fight for their ideals have been, and always will be, the saving element in a world which happily has never yet been left without them.
Before and since the days when Socrates found that it was “impossible to live a quiet life, for that would be to disobey the deity,” there have always been some souls who have counted it worth while to lose all else, if haply in the losing they might get nearer to the light from which they came. Their failures, their apparently hopeless mistakes, are often evident enough, yet the mistakes die, and the spirit which animates them lives. It would be dark, indeed, if the torches of those eager runners were to go out.
F. F. M.
London 1896
“Let a man contend to the uttermost for his life’s set prize, be it what it will.”
A Few Press Opinions on Into the Highways and Hedges
Academy - “This book is so admirably conceived and written that Mr. Montrésor’s next venture must excite unusual interest.”
Speaker - “This book will undoubtedly rank high amongst the notable novels of 1895.”
Athenæum - “Whoever wrote ‘Into the Highways and Hedges’ wrote no common novel. A touch of idealism, of nobility of thought and purpose, mingled with an air of reality and well-chosen expression, are the most notable features of a book that has not the ordinary defects of such qualities. With all its elevation of utterance and spirituality of outlook and insight it is wonderfully free from overstrained or exaggerated matter, and it has glimpses of humour. Most
of the characters are vivid, yet there is restraint and sobriety in their treatment.”
Daily Telegraph - “This exceptionally noble and stirring book. Recounted with unflagging verve and vigour, we unhesitatingly say that it has hardly a dull or superfluous page.”
New Age - “A remarkably strong novel. I often thought of George Eliot when reading this book, which I advise every one to read.” (_Katherine Tynan._)
Manchester Courier - “Mr. Montrésor’s next book will be eagerly awaited by all those who make the acquaintance of his first, for a more strikingly original or a stronger novel has not appeared for some time.”
World - “‘Into the Highways and Hedges’ would have been a remarkable work of fiction at any time; it is phenomenal at this, for it is neither trivial, eccentric, coarse, nor pretentious, but the opposite of all these, and a very fine and lofty conception. The man is wonderfully drawn, realised with a masterly completeness, and the woman is worthy of him. The whole of the story is admirably conceived and sustained. A wonderful book.”
Glasgow Herald - “This is a remarkable and powerful book, which is likely to leave a strong impression of itself upon every intelligent reader. One of the most interesting novels that one has seen for some time.”
Manchester Guardian - “The characters are conceived strongly. Since the days of Dinah Morris there has not, perhaps, been quite so successful a portrait of a man or woman consumed by the passion of humanity. The dialogue throughout the book is excellent.”
Preface.
This is not meant to be a controversial novel. I by no means agree with all Barnabas Thorpe’s opinions. Nevertheless I believe that the men who fight for their ideals have been, and always will be, the saving element in a world which happily has never yet been left without them.
Before and since the days when Socrates found that it was “impossible to live a quiet life, for that would be to disobey the deity,” there have always been some souls who have counted it worth while to lose all else, if haply in the losing they might get nearer to the light from which they came. Their failures, their apparently hopeless mistakes, are often evident enough, yet the mistakes die, and the spirit which animates them lives. It would be dark, indeed, if the torches of those eager runners were to go out.
F. F. M.