THE DANCING FAUN.
By FLORENCE FARR.
With Title-page and Cover Design by Aubrey Beardsley.
16mo.Cloth.Price, $1.00.
We welcome the light and merry pen of Miss Farr as one of the deftest that has been wielded in the style of to-day. She has written the cleverest and the most cynical sensation story of the season.—Liverpool Daily Post.
Slight as it is, the story is, in its way, strong.—Literary World.
Full of bright paradox, and paradox which is no mere topsy-turvy play upon words, but the product of serious thinking upon life. One of the cleverest of recent novels.—Star.
It is full of epigrammatic effects, and it has a certain thread of pathos calculated to win our spmpathy.—Queen.
The story is subtle and psychological after the fashion of modern psychology; it is undeniably clever and smartly written.—Gentlewoman.
No one can deny its freshness and wit. Indeed there are things in it here and there which John Oliver Hobbes herself might have signed without loss of reputation.—Woman.
There is a lurid power in the very unreality of the story. One does not quite understand how Lady Geraldine worked herself up to shooting her lover; but when she has done it, the description of what passes through her mind is magnificent.—Athenæum.
Written by an obviously clever woman.—Black and White.
Miss Farr has talent. "The Dancing Faun" contains writing that is distinctively good. Doubtless it is only a prelude to something much stronger.—Academy.
As a work of art, the book has the merit of brevity and smart writing, while the dénouement is skilfully prepared, and comes as a surprise. If the book had been intended as a satire on the "new woman" sort of literature, it would have been most brilliant; but assuming it to be written in earnest, we can heartily praise the form of its construction without agreeing with the sentiments expressed.—St. Jame's Gazette.
Shows considerable power and aptitude.—Saturday Review.
Miss Farr is a clever writer whose apprenticeship at playwriting can easily be detected in the epigrammatic conversations with which this book is filled, and whose characters expound a philosophy of life which strongly recalls Oscar Wilde's later interpretations. . . . The theme of the tale is heredity developed in a most unpleasant manner. The leading idea that daughters inherit the father's qualities, good or evil, while sons resemble their mother, is well sustained.—Home Journal.
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