The gallant ease, the natural gayety, the charming manners that charmed no less for a clear trace of mannerism, were a peculiar refreshment after society racier of Riverina soil.
"Stingaree"
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
He has not Stevenson's exquisite and yet daring appropriateness in the choice of words, but his humour is racier and scarcely less delicate, and in passages of pathos he knows his way straight to the human heart As the invention or discovery of new themes grows day by day less easy-as the bounds of the story-teller's personal originality are constantly narrowing-the purely literary faculty, the mere craft of authorship in its finer manifestations must of necessity grow more valuable.
"My Contemporaries In Fiction"
David Christie Murray
It was not till the Spaniards borrowed the form of the novella and transplanted it to their racier soil that it began to bear character, and to fruit in the richness of their picaresque fiction.
"Literature and Life"
William Dean Howells