Mr. F. MARION CRAWFORD'S NOVELS
Mr. Crawford has no equal as a writer of brilliant cosmopolitan fiction,in which the characters really belong to the chosen scene and the storyinterest is strong. His novels possess atmosphere in a high degree.
Mr. Isaacs (India)
Its scenes are laid in Simla, chiefly. This is the work which firstplaced its author among the most brilliant novelists of his day.
Greifenstein (The Black Forest)
"... Another notable contribution to the literature of the day. Itpossesses originality in its conception and is a work of unusualability. Its interest is sustained to the close, and it is an advanceeven on the previous work of this talented author. Like all Mr.Crawford's work, this novel is crisp, clear, and vigorous, and will beread with a great deal of interest."--_New York Evening Telegram._
Zoroaster (Persia)
"It is a drama in the force of its situations and in the poetry anddignity of its language; but its men and women are not men and women ofa play. By the naturalness of their conversation and behavior they seemto live and lay hold of our human sympathy more than the same characterson a stage could possibly do."--_The New York Times._
The Witch of Prague (Bohemia)
"_A fantastic tale," illustrated by W. J. Hennessy._
"The artistic skill with which this extraordinary story is constructedand carried out is admirable and delightful.... Mr. Crawford has scoreda decided triumph, for the interest of the tale is sustainedthroughout.... A very remarkable, powerful, and interestingstory."--_New York Tribune._
Paul Patoff (Constantinople)
"Mr. Crawford has a marked talent for assimilating local color, not tomake mention of a broader historical sense. Even though he may adopt, asit is the romancer's right to do, the extreme romantic view of history,it is always a living and moving picture that he evolves for us, variedand stirring."--_New York Evening Post._
Marietta (Venice)
"No living writer can surpass Mr. Crawford in the construction of acomplicated plot and the skilful unravelling of the tangledskein."--_Chicago Record-Herald._
"He has gone back to the field of his earlier triumphs, and has,perhaps, scored the greatest triumph of them all."--_New York Herald._
THE SARACINESCA SERIES
Saracinesca
"The work has two distinct merits, either of which would serve to makeit great,--that of telling a perfect story in a perfect way, and ofgiving a graphic picture of Roman society in the last days of the Pope'stemporal power.... The story is exquisitely told."--_Boston Traveler._
Sant' Ilario. A Sequel to "Saracinesca"
"A singularly powerful and beautiful story.... It fulfils everyrequirement of artistic fiction. It brings out what is most impressivein human action, without owing any of its effectiveness tosensationalism or artifice. It is natural, fluent in evolution,accordant with experience, graphic in description, penetrating inanalysis, and absorbing in interest."--_New York Tribune._
Don Orsino. A Sequel to "Sant' Ilario"
"Perhaps the cleverest novel of the year.... There is not a dullparagraph in the book, and the reader may be assured that once begun,the story of _Don Orsino_ will fascinate him until its close."--_TheCritic._
Taquisara
"To Mr. Crawford's Roman novels belongs the supreme quality of unitingsubtly drawn characters to a plot of uncommon interest."--_ChicagoTribune._
Corleone
"Mr. Crawford is the novelist born ... a natural story-teller, with wit,imagination, and insight added to a varied and profound knowledge ofsocial life."--_The Inter-Ocean_, Chicago.
Casa Braccio. _In two volumes, $2.00._ Illustrated by A. Castaigne.
"Mr. Crawford's books have life, pathos, and insight; he tells adramatic story with many exquisite touches."--_New York Sun._
The White Sister
NOVELS OF ROMAN SOCIAL LIFE
A Roman Singer
"One of the earliest and best works of this famous novelist.... None buta genuine artist could have made so true a picture of human life,crossed by human passions and interwoven with human weakness. It is aperfect specimen of literary art."--_The Newark Advertiser._
Marzio's Crucifix
"We have repeatedly had occasion to say that Mr. Crawford possesses inan extraordinary degree the art of constructing a story. It is as if itcould not have been written otherwise, so naturally does the storyunfold itself, and so logical and consistent is the sequence of incidentafter incident. As a story, _Marzio's Crucifix_ is perfectlyconstructed."--_New York Commercial Advertiser._
Heart of Rome. A Tale of the Lost Water
"Mr. Crawford has written a story of absorbing interest, a story with agenuine thrill in it; he has drawn his characters with a sure andbrilliant touch, and he has said many things surpassingly well."--_NewYork Times Saturday Review._
Cecilia. A Story of Modern Rome
"That F. Marion Crawford is a master of mystery needs no new telling....His latest novel, _Cecilia_, is as weird as anything he has done sincethe memorable _Mr. Isaacs_.... A strong, interesting, dramatic story,with the picturesque Roman setting beautifully handled as only amaster's touch could do it."--_Philadelphia Evening Telegraph._
Whosoever Shall Offend
"It is a story sustained from beginning to end by an ever increasingdramatic quality."--_New York Evening Post._
Pietro Ghisleri
"The imaginative richness, the marvellous ingenuity of plot, the powerand subtlety of the portrayal of character, the charm of the romanticenvironment,--the entire atmosphere, indeed,--rank this novel at onceamong the great creations."--_The Boston Budget._
To Leeward
"The four characters with whose fortunes this novel deals are, perhaps,the most brilliantly executed portraits in the whole of Mr. Crawford'slong picture gallery, while for subtle insight into the springs of humanpassion and for swift dramatic action none of the novels surpasses thisone."--_The News and Courier._
A Lady of Rome
Via Crucis. A Romance of the Second Crusade.
"_Via Crucis...._ A tale of former days, possessing an air of realityand an absorbing interest such as few writers since Scott have been ableto accomplish when dealing with historical characters."--_BostonTranscript._
In the Palace of the King (Spain)
"_In the Palace of the King_ is a masterpiece; there is apicturesqueness, a sincerity which will catch all readers in anagreeable storm of emotion, and even leave a hardened reviewer impressedand delighted."--_Literature_, London.
With the Immortals
"The strange central idea of the story could have occurred only to awriter whose mind was very sensitive to the current of modern thoughtand progress, while its execution, the setting it forth in properliterary clothing, could be successfully attempted only by one whoseactive literary ability should be fully equalled by his power ofassimilative knowledge both literary and scientific, and no less by hiscourage and capacity for hard work. The book will be found to have afascination entirely new for the habitual reader of novels. Indeed, Mr.Crawford has succeeded in taking his readers quite above the ordinaryplane of novel interest."--_Boston Advertiser._
Children of the King (Calabria)
"One of the most artistic and exquisitely finished pieces of work thatCrawford has produced. The picturesque setting, Calabria and itssurroundings, the beautiful Sorrento and the Gulf of Salerno, with thebewitching accessories that climate, sea, and sky afford, give Mr.Crawford rich opportunities to show his rare descriptive powers. As awhole the book is strong and beautiful through its simplicity, and ranksamong the choicest of the author's many fine productions."--_PublicOpinion._
A Cigarette Maker's Romance (Munich)
and Khaled, a Tale of Arabia
"Two gems of subtle analysis of human passion and motive."--_Times._
"The interest is unflagging throughout. Never has Mr. Crawford done morebrilliant realistic work than here. But his realism is only the case andcover for those in
tense feelings which, placed under no matter whathumble conditions, produce the most dramatic and the most tragicsituations.... This is a secret of genius, to take the most coarse andcommon material, the meanest surroundings, the most sordid materialprospects, and out of the vehement passions which sometimes dominate allhuman beings to build up with these poor elements, scenes and passagesthe dramatic and emotional power of which at once enforce attention andawaken the profoundest interest."--_New York Tribune._
Arethusa (Constantinople)
Dr. Cooper, in _The Bookman_, once gave to Mr. Crawford the title whichbest marks his place in modern fiction: "the prince of storytellers."
A Tale of a Lonely Parish
"It is a pleasure to have anything so perfect of its kind as this briefand vivid story.... It is doubly a success, being full of humansympathy, as well as thoroughly artistic in its nice balancing of theunusual with the commonplace, the clever juxtaposition of innocence andguilt, comedy and tragedy, simplicity and intrigue."--_Critic._
Dr. Claudius. A True Story
The scene changes from Heidelberg to New York, and much of the storydevelops during the ocean voyage.
"There is a satisfying quality in Mr. Crawford's strong, vital, forcefulstories."--_Boston Herald._
An American Politician. The scenes are laid in Boston
"It need scarcely be said that the story is skilfully and picturesquelywritten, portraying sharply individual characters in well-definedsurroundings."--_New York Commercial Advertiser._
The Three Fates
"Mr. Crawford has manifestly brought his best qualities as a student ofhuman nature and his finest resources as a master of an original andpicturesque style to bear upon this story. Taken for all in all, it isone of the most pleasing of all his productions in fiction, and itaffords a view of certain phases of American, or perhaps we should sayof New York, life that have not hitherto been treated with anything likethe same adequacy and felicity."--_Boston Beacon._
Marion Darche
"Full enough of incident to have furnished material for three or fourstories.... A most interesting and engrossing book. Every page unfoldsnew possibilities, and the incidents multiply rapidly."--_Detroit FreePress._
"We are disposed to rank _Marion Darche_ as the best of Mr. Crawford'sAmerican stories."--_The Literary World._
Katharine Lauderdale
The Ralstons. A Sequel to "Katharine Lauderdale"
"Mr. Crawford at his best is a great novelist, and in _KatharineLauderdale_ we have him at his best."--_Boston Daily Advertiser._
"A most admirable novel, excellent in style, flashing with humor, andfull of the ripest and wisest reflections upon men and women."--_TheWestminster Gazette._
"It is the first time, we think, in American fiction that any suchbreadth of view has shown itself in the study of our socialframework."--_Life._
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