VALMOUTH A NOVEL With a Frontispiece by AUGUSTUS JOHN
Reading edition
TIMES:
“All the characters are bizarre—as bizarre as the style.”
LONDON MERCURY:
“He has a certain gift for inconsequence and highly etherealised frivolity.”
SCOTSMAN:
“There is no particular plot.”
IRISH LIFE:
“It is a weird medley of Beardsleyesque chatter.”
LAND AND WATER:
“This is the real decadence: Huysmans and his friends were muscular giants, playing at bizarre senility, compared with Mr Firbank.”
LIVERPOOL POST:
“Had Shelley written nothing but Julian and Maddalo and The Cenci, we might have called Mr Firbank a prose Shelley.”
DAILY NEWS:
“Mr Firbank, who can write really witty nonsense.”
ATHENÆUM:
“But Mr Firbank has talents—a gift of style, a capacity to write dialogue, an appreciation of the beautiful and the absurd. With such gifts he might produce a real comedy of manners. It is to be hoped that he will.”