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Minneapolis
Tribune “This story is in the genuine Hope style and for that reason will be widely read.”

Public Ledger,
Philadelphia “‘Father Stafford’” is extremely clever, a bold privateer venturing upon the high seas.”

San Francisco
Chronicle It is a good story, the strong parts of which are the conflict between love and conscience on the part of a young Anglican priest. The charm of the book, however, lies in the briskness of the dialogue, which is as finely finished as any of Hope's novels.”

Nashville
Banner “‘Father Stafford’ is a charming story. The whole book sustains the reputation that Anthony Hope has made, and adds another proof that as a portrayer of characters of sharp distinctness and individuality, he has no superior.”

Evening
Wisconsin “A writer of great merit. . . . Mr. Hope’s work has a quality of straightforwardness that recommends it to readers who have grown tired of the loaded novel.”

Phillipsburg
Journal “This is considered by his critics to be one of the strongest, most beautiful and interesting novels Mr. Hope has ever written. There is not a dull line in the entire volume.”

Amusement
Gazette “The dialogue is bright and worldly, and the other characters do not suffer because so prominent is the hero; they are well drawn, and quite out of the ordinary.”

Vanity,
New York “A very interesting narrative, and Mr. Hope tells the story after that fashion which he would seem to have made peculiarly his own.”

Kansas City
Journal “There is something more than the romance of the action to hold the reader’s mind. It is one of the author’s best productions.”

Every Saturday,
Elgin, Ill. “Anthony Hope is a master of dialogue, and to his art in this particular is due the enticing interest which leads the reader on from page to page.”

Hebrew
Standard “The strife between the obligation of a vow of celibacy and the promptings of true love are vividly portrayed in this little book. . . . It contains an admirable description of English country life, and is well written.”

Boston Daily
Globe “It has enough of the charm of the author’s thought and style to identify it as characteristic, and make it very pleasing.”