‘There is always a touch of the fairy-tale in Sir Walter Besant’s romances.... He steeps the workaday world in a transfigurating medium, and eerie incidents, impossible coincidences, fine and subtle sentiments, beautiful love stories of pure passion, all appear in keeping.... In “The Master Craftsman” Sir Walter Besant’s admirers will find no cause for disappointment.... It is charming, it is informed with the healthiest spirit, and it is optimistic, chivalrous, picturesque.’--_Daily News._ ‘“The Master Craftsman” opens with a brilliant prologue, not the less enjoyable because it recalls the opening chapter of “Treasure Island.”... The story contains romance, a sort of ethical adaptability …
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