'"Court Royal" is among the few novels of our time that deserve, and will probably obtain, life beyond its day. Intellect, knowledge, fancy, and humour have gone to its making, and thought besides.'—Graphic.

'The story holds the reader under a spell which is unbroken from first to last.'—Morning Post.

'It is difficult to say which is the most striking feature of this remarkable and welcome novel—the quaint humour, the consummate power, or the freshness.'—Vanity Fair.