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“STOLEN WATERS.”
SOME PRESS NOTICES.
“We can welcome Mr. Healy’s treatment of a difficult and obscureepisode in the history of Ulster as on the whole impartial, and based ona judicial reading of a vast accumulation of documentary evidence....In his capacity as historical detective he is fair-minded to a degree,which would amaze us if we were not so well acquainted with the well-temperedquality of an intellect that for subtlety and power and a dispassionatecoolness is not surpassed by that of any Irishman living....The wonderful net of intrigue by which all this was contrived has beencarefully unravelled by Mr. Healy with a pertinaceous ingenuity worthyof Sherlock Holmes.”—Morning Post.
“Mr. Healy has accomplished a difficult task with considerable success.The result of his labours is an absorbing book.... The author hassucceeded in weaving a romantic story out of the dry material of officialrecords and legal documents.”—Athenæum.
“The story that Mr. Healy tells has something of the flavour ofhistorical romance.... Mr. Healy’s method of argument on the mainissue is calm and temperate.... A wonderful effort in legal andhistorical research.”—London Daily Telegraph.
“It is a truism that only the busiest men have any time to spare,and it is proved again by the publication of an elaborate historical studyby Mr. T. M. Healy, the famous Irish M.P., who is as entertaining andbrilliant with his pen as he is in speech. Mr. Healy tells his story withenthusiasm and thoroughness.”—London Express.
“Mr. Healy is a lawyer of original genius who, almost more frequentlythan any other man of his time, has performed the unexpected. He hasdone so once again in this extraordinary book, which tells, with manytouches of eloquence and here and there a characteristic sting, the tangledstory of a legal dispute.... A work of argument and legal historywritten with sustained eloquence and frequent felicity.... A taskwhich only a passionate sense of duty and determined doggedness couldhave achieved. As the author in his picturesque manner puts it, thescent was often stale, but despite the difficulties and uncertainties thatconfronted him, he has achieved what he sought, and presents the resultto the expert and the curious.”—Outlook (London).
“Mr. Healy constructs a story of remarkable interest. By dipping intoit here and there some instructive glimpses will be obtained of thefashion in which Irish history was made in bygone centuries.”—Observer(London).
“It exhibits vividly enough some of the less favourable aspects ofpast Irish administration, and it will serve the writer’s purpose ofstimulating a considerable amount of sympathy for the standpoint of hiscontentions.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
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“Those who love to extract information from Blue Books will revelin this volume of strange facts.... It would be a needless task toexpend words of praise upon this fair-minded volume, prepared by one ofthe subtlest intellects of our time.”—Review of Reviews.
“‘Stolen Waters’ has to be welcomed as a monument of disinterestedadvocacy.... Mr. Healy’s vivid, yet archaic, style; at all mannerof odd points the unusual word flashes out at you, and relieves thegloom of technical narration.”—Truth.
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