QUO VADIS
A Narrative of the Time of Nero. By Henryk Sienkiewicz. Translated fromthe Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. $1.50.
One of the greatest books of our day.--_The Bookman_.
The book is like a grand historical pageant.--_Literary World_.
Of intense interest to the whole Christian civilization.--_ChicagoTribune_.
Interest never wanes; and the story is carried through its many phasesof conflict and terror to a climax that enthralls.--_Chicago Record_.
As a study of the introduction of the gospel of love into the paganworld typified by Rome, it is marvellously fine.--_Chicago Interior_.
The picture here given of life in Rome under the last of the Caesars isone of unparalleled power and vividness.--_Boston Home Journal_.
One of the most remarkable books of the decade. It burns upon the brainthe struggles and triumphs of the early church.--_Boston DailyAdvertiser_.
It will become recognized by virtue of its own merits as the one heroicmonument built by the modern novelist above the ruins of decadent Rome,and in honor of the blessed martyrs of the early Church.--_BrooklynEagle_.
Our debt to Sienkiewicz is not less than our debt to his translatorand friend, Jeremiah Curtin. The diversity of the language, the rapidflow of thought, the picturesque imagery of the descriptions are allhis.--_Boston Transcript_.
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THE KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS
An Historical Romance of Poland and Germany. By Henryk Sienkiewicz.Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. Illustrated. 2 vols.Crown 8vo. 2.00.
The greatest work Sienkiewicz has given us.--_Buffalo Express_.
It seems superior even to "Quo Vadis" in strength and realism.--_TheChurchman_.
The construction of the story is beyond praise. It is difficultto conceive of any one who will not pick the book up witheagerness.--_Chicago Evening Post_.
There are some scenes in the book that for power and excitementremind one of the great encounter between Ursus and the bull in "QuoVadis."--_Minneapolis Tribune_.
Vivid, dramatic, and vigorous.... His imaginative power, his command oflanguage, and the picturesque scenes he sets combine to fascinate thereader.--_Philadelphia Bulletin_.
A book that holds your almost breathless attention as in a vise fromthe very beginning, for in it love and strife, the most thrilling ofall worldly subjects, are described masterfully.--_The Boston Journal_.
Another remarkable book. His descriptions are tremendously effective;one can almost hear the sound of the carnage; to the mind's eye thescene of battle is unfolded by a master artist.--_The HartfordCourant_.
Thrillingly dramatic, full of strange local color and very faithful toits period, besides having that sense of the mysterious and weird thatthrobs in the Polish blood and infects alike their music andliterature.--_The St. Paul Globe_.
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_OTHER NOVELS AND ROMANCES_ _by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Translated from_ _the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin_.
CHILDREN OF THE SOIL
Crown 8vo. $1.50.
It must be reckoned among the finer fictions of our time, and shows itsauthor to be almost as great a master in the field of the domesticnovel as he had previously been shown to be in that of imaginativehistorical romances.--_The Dial_, Chicago.
HANIA, AND OTHER STORIES
With portrait. Crown 8vo. $1.50.
At the highest level of the author's genius.--_The Outlook_.
SIELANKA, A FOREST PICTURE
And Other Stories. With frontispiece. Crown 8vo. $1.50.
They exhibit the masterly genius of Sienkiewicz even better than hislonger romances. They abound in fine character-drawings and beautifuldescriptions.--_Chicago Inter-Ocean_.
LIFE AND DEATH AND OTHER LEGENDS AND STORIES
Illustrated. 16mo. Decorated cloth, $1.00.
WITHOUT DOGMA
A Novel of Modern Poland. (Translated from the Polish by Iza Young.)Crown 8vo. $1.50.
A human document read in the light of a great imagination.--_BostonBeacon_.
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