she is well at home in life and she has the traditions and prejudices of the service at her er ends � literary world a charming volume in this clever writer s best style very few story ve us more real children than john strange winter and no one gives us soldiers more real and life like � mrs s stories will always appeal to a certain section of the public red coats is a collection of short tales in her usual easy going style she has proved before now that she knows army life on the very tips of her fingers john strange winter has what few writers possess the power of making commonplace people interesting and stupid people � the june grown vo cloth s d boards s each my or experiences of a lady help my is bright and often amusing the story is full of shrewd observation and lively character sketches � post july a capital tale of society life the is extremely good and like all the s books the story is written � � � r july my is another pleasantly written story we are glad to see the lesson enforced that the best hearts and even the best manners do not belong exclusively to blue blood and that even a man who drops his h s may be a truer gentleman than the who looks down upon him the tale is entertaining john strange winter can never be dull � july only human only human is a powerful story true to its title in that it with human passion human weakness and human suffering it strikes an ever sensitive of human sympathy and is in every respect worthy of the genial and author of � daily telegraph april this novel is well named it is very human and it is for that reason one of if not the best that john winter has written since harvest � lady s may f v white co street strand w c works by john strange winter crown vo cloth s d each aunt a very amusing and told tale � daily april if anybody wants a novel which will not bore him by elaborate analysis and tiresome descriptions but will simply provide him with a few hours of light and bright entertainment let him put aunt at the head of his library list and like the baby in the advertisement refuse to be happy until he gets it � spectator f john strange winter has surpassed herself in aunt which is as fresh bright genial and one may almost say jovial a story as anyone would wish to read � june the soul of the bishop the last person from whom we should have expected a religious novel is the writer who signs herself john strange winter but the story proves to be by far the best and most thoughtful piece of work that its writer has yet attempted suffice it to say that both the bishop and are powerfully drawn and that john winter has given a skilful and thoughtful setting to the problem she has put before herself and her readers � standard a powerful story quite off the beaten track and worthy of the fame of the writer � lady s we have read few things of the kind that are better than the story of bishop s courtship � s it is in our opinion the best and strongest work she has ever done � herald a seventh child the experiences of a this remarkably successful novel is suggested by the old superstition that the seventh child of a seventh child is gifted with the second sight it may assuredly be said of the idea on which mrs s new novel is based that if not true it is imagined and developed whose gift causes so many painful is made to tell her own story which she does with a simplicity not with malice � august one of the best stories john strange winter has written ia a seventh child � telegraph august a seventh child is of absorbing interest and is certainly one of her best efforts � times august f v white co street strand w o works b y john winter in one vol crown vo cloth gilt s a born soldier i re mental life is as truly and happily hit off in a born soldier as in any work of the brilliant series that has given john strange winter her high and unique reputation we remember for instance nothing better than the drawing of amongst the many practical jokes that her soldier boys have played from time to time our chief quarrel with the book is tliat it gives us comparatively little of the life in what however is done in this way is done well and there is certainly no other writer who could give such an appearance of vitality to the of outlines and by a few bold swift and touches produce a picture of life in a crack cavalry regiment upon one character indeed the author has expended a more careful and will bear comparison with the best of the soldier servants whom john strange winter has depicted for us with a finely humorous appreciation of their and yet with an accuracy that never from the subject line the story is full of interest from the first to the last it is written in a bright lively natural and often vein � county y an unusually bright wholesome and interesting story � truth john strange winter has never written a tale of more sustained interest it is full of go presents some very excellent character sketches and is altogether a delightful and characteristic piece of literary work � and ds october the s w small crown vo paper covers is cloth is d like all mrs s books it is just the thing to read when one is tired she is never heavy if 