It followed The Trail of the Sword and preceded The Seats of the Mighty,and appeared in the summer of 1895. The critics gave it a receptionwhich was extremely gratifying, because, as it seemed to me, theyrealised what I was trying to do; and that is a great deal. One greatjournal said it read as though it had been written at a sitting; anothercalled it a tour de force, and the grave Athenaeum lauded it in a keywhich was likely to make me nervous, since it seemed to set a standardwhich I should f
...ind it hard to preserve in the future. But in truth thenewspaper was right which said that the book read as though it waswritten at a sitting, and that it was a tour de force. The facts arethat the book was written, printed, revised, and ready for press in fiveweeks.
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