Price, $1.50.
It is a pleasure to have anything so perfect of its kind as this brief and vivid story.... It is doubly a success, being full of human sympathy, as well as thoroughly artistic in its nice balancing of the unusual with the commonplace, the clever juxtaposition of innocence and guilt, comedy and tragedy, simplicity and intrigue.—Critic.
SARACINESCA.
Price, $1.50.
His highest achievement, as yet, in the realms of fiction. The work has two distinct merits, either of which would serve to make it great,—that of telling a perfect story in a perfect way, and of giving a graphic picture of Roman society in the last days of the Pope's temporal power.... The story is exquisitely told.—Boston Traveller.
One of the most engrossing novels we have ever read.—Boston Times.
MARZIO'S CRUCIFIX.
Price, $1.50.
Now this is brought out in this little story with the firmness of touch, a power and skill which belong to the first rank in art.... We take the liberty of saying that this work belongs to the highest department of character painting in words.—Churchman.
"Marzio's Crucifix" is another of those tales of modern Rome which show the author so much at his ease. A subtle compound of artistic feeling, avarice, malice, and criminal frenzy is this carver of silver chalices and crucifixes.—The Times.