THE ROMANCE OF AN EMPRESS. Catharine II of Russia. By K. Waliszewski. With Portrait. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.
“Of Catharine’s marvelous career we have in this volume a sympathetic, learned, and picturesque narrative. No royal career, not even of some of the Roman or papal ones, has better shown us how truth can be stranger than fiction.”—New York Times.
“A striking and able work, deserving of the highest praise.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
“The book is well called a romance, for although no legends are admitted in it, and the author has been at pains to present nothing but verified facts, the actual career of the subject was so abnormal and sensational as to seem to belong to fiction.”—New York Sun.
“A dignified, handsome, indeed superb volume, and well worth careful reading.”—Chicago Herald.
“It is a most wonderful story, charmingly told, with new material to sustain it, and a breadth and temperance and consideration that go far to soften one’s estimate of one of the most extraordinary women of history.”—New York Commercial Advertiser.
“The perusal of such a book can not fail to add to that breadth of view which is so essential to the student of universal history.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
MANY INVENTIONS. By Rudyard Kipling. Containing fourteen stories, several of which are now published for the first time, and two poems, 12mo. 427 pages. Cloth, $1.50.
“The reader turns from its pages with the conviction that the author has no superior to-day in animated narrative and virility of style. He remains master of a power in which none of his contemporaries approach him—the ability to select out of countless details the few vital ones which create the finished picture. He knows how, with a phrase or a word, to make you see his characters as he sees them, to make you feel the full meaning of a dramatic situation.”—New York Tribune.
“‘Many Inventions’ will confirm Mr. Kipling’s reputation.... We would cite with pleasure sentences from almost every page, and extract incidents from almost every story. But to what end? Here is the completest book that Mr. Kipling has yet given us in workmanship, the weightiest and most humane in breadth of view.”—Pall Mall Gazette.