St. James's Gazette "A book displaying considerable cleverness.... Very readable and clever."—Academy. Academy "'Philistia' is distinctly clever, and much may be learned from its perusal."—Morning Post. Morning Post BABYLON. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with twelve Illustrations by P. Macnab, 3s. 6d. "The book justifies itself amply. It is fresh, entertaining, and pleasant from beginning to end. The author has kept in check his peculiar power of weird and fantastic realism, but he has proved himself equally at home in the observation of commonplace character, and the reproduction of everyday life."—Pall Mall Gazette. Pall Mall Gazette "Very bright and very amusing.... That it stands far above the average of contemporary fiction goes without saying."—Spectator. Spectator FOR MAIMIE'S SAKE. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. "'For Maimie's Sake' is a book that every one who has made acquaintance with the stories signed by 'J. Arbuthnot Wilson' will naturally take up with pleasure. Pleasurable anticipation soon becomes interest, and this interest must rapidly grow into absorbed attention. The humour throughout the first part of Mr. Allen's story is delightful. The reader falls in love with laughing, lovely, unconventional Maimie."—Academy. Academy "This is a very remarkable book. Maimie is essentially human, intensely womanly, and there is something so bewitching in her childish ignorance, something so innocent in her wickedness, that we can understand her friends' and her lovers' infatuation for her.... There is power of a very high order in writing which can so consistently, yet without the smallest effort, concentrate the reader's attention on the sinner as apart from the sin. There is not a character in the book which fails to interest us, and the writing is, of its kind, faultless."—Time.
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