TCDE-Team at 18:01, 7 December 2024

2024-12-07T18:01:16Z

New page

''By Dr. Conan Doyle'' is an article published in [[The St. James's Gazette]] on 21 november 1893.

Review of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s novel [[Beyond the City]] (1891).

== By Dr. Conan Doyle ==
[[File:st-james-s-gazette-1893-11-21-p5-by-dr-conan-doyle.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The St. James's Gazette]] (21 november 1893, p. 5)]]

"[[The Great Shadow]]" has been before the world for some little time; and "[[Beyond the City]]" appeared, we believe, in one of the magazines for this year. Both are capital stories in [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Dr. Conan Doyle]]'s best vein — as good in its way as that of [[Sherlock Holmes]] — and both are short. The former is a tale of the last days of the Napoleonic wars, its hero a lad from the Border who fought through the campaign which ended at Waterloo. The latter is a tale of more peaceful sort, setting forth how one Mrs. Westmacott, being an advocate of female emancipation, brought much perturbation upon the estimable inhabitants of a retired suburb by reason of her "emancipated" habits of smoking, drinking stout, keeping pet snakes, and because of, or despite of, these idiosyncrasies captivating the affections of an elderly gentleman of her acquaintance. How that gentleman's daughters conspired to reclaim their erring parent by themselves professing to become ardent disciples of Mrs. Westmacott; how they clad themselves in the divided skirt, spilt chemicals over the table-cloths and the ''Times'', and affected a connoisseur's knowledge in regard to "Egyptians," "Richmond Gems," and such-like manly accoutrements; how success crowned the plot, and ultimately every Jack found his Gill; all this may be discovered in the course of a couple of hours' very amusing reading in "[[Beyond the City]]." The book is published by Mr. Arrowsmith.

{{footer_periodicals}}

By Dr. Conan Doyle - Revision history

TCDE-Team at 18:01, 7 December 2024