The Steel Hammer: A Novel

For the story is not only a splendid bit of fiction, finely conceived and vividly wrought out, but it has the rare merit of appealing to the two classes that go so far towards making up the general reading public-those who, on the one hand, are attracted by the narrative, the mere outward presentation of a series of events; and those, on the other, to whom mere externals are as nothing, whose interest is aroused only when the marks of the dissecting-knife are plainly visible, and the myster...