“The illustrator’s bold and luminous drawings certainly catch the bluff spirit of Charles de Coster’s quaint masterpiece, in which the transition-age between mediævalism and modernity lives again so grimly, so shrewdly, so humorously. Here there is a suitable gift-book for all who love to travel in the highways of world-literature.”—Morning Post.
“It is, of course, for adults and not for children, with its grim horrors and its full-blooded jollity. What we have learnt to call the soul of a people is in it—the spirit of Flanders. The force of De Coster’s style loses nothing in Mr. Geoffrey Whitworth’s translation, and there are admirable illustrations cut on the wood by M. Albert Delstanche.”—Daily Telegraph.
“A most remarkable volume.”—Glasgow Herald.
“Reading it for the first time in Mr. Whitworth’s admirable English version, one is amazed at first that it has not been rendered previously. De Coster will never require another English version, and this one book of ‘glorious adventures’ is aureole enough to ensure his place on the great hierarchy of literature.”—The Bookman.
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