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                           Back o’ the Moon

                          BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

                           “THE DRAKESTONE.”

                       Second Edition. Price 6s.

                    _Selection of Press Opinions._

“It is, both in construction and workmanship, very unlike the usual
flimsy story which does duty as a modern novel. This book is more like
the fiction of some fifty or sixty years ago, when the appearance of a
novel was, to a certain extent, an event in the world of letters.”--_The
Spectator._

“There is much sound work in the novel; quaint local customs are
conscientiously reproduced, and the characters, with the exception of a
rather shadowy heroine, are living beings.”--_The Athenæum._

“The book is thoughtfully as well as cleverly written, and at least
maintains the promise of its forerunners.”--_The Times._

“The character-drawing is strong and clear, the run of the incident
perfectly natural, and the outlook kind and manly in a spirit that puts
to the blush a great deal of meretricious and catchpenny work.”--_Pall
Mall Gazette._

“Mr. Onions’s canvas is crowded with well-drawn characters, and the
whole presents a particularly lively and clever study of Yorkshire life
and manners eighty years ago.”--_The Academy._

“Here he is thoroughly at home, and he writes with rare insight and
uncommon skill of the country folk of our dales.”--_Leeds Mercury._

“The present story derives its main interest from the liveliness of its
presentation of the countryside and rustic character of Yorkshire, as
these appeared to the observant eye in the earlier half of the
nineteenth century.”--_The Scotsman._

“As we have said, the book is devoid of sensationalism of any sort; but,
for all its quiet tone, it is one of the few books of the season worth
careful reading, and worth also a permanent place in