The sagalike treatment and almost lyric mood of "The Story of Gösta Berling" render its form in keeping with the unusual character of the book itself. The harshness of Northern manners enables Miss Lagerlöf to probe human life to its depths; and with the effect of increasing the weird power of the whole, a convincing truth to nature is intermingled with the wild legends and folk-lore of Värmland.
There is hardly a page that does not glow with strange beauty, so that the book exerts an unbroken charm from beginning to end.—The Bookman.
Something Homeric in its epic simplicity runs through the history of the deposed priest. The opening chapters engage the attention at once by their mystic realism.—Time and the Hour.
I am the King. Being the Account of some Happenings in the Life of Godfrey de Bersac, Crusader Knight. By Sheppard Stevens. 16mo. Cloth, extra. $1.25.
A fresh and invigorating piece of reading.—Nashville American.
Characterized by those graceful touches which belong to true and pure romanticism.—Boston Herald.
It has the straightforwardness of the old-time story-teller.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Duke's Servants. A Romance. By Sidney Herbert Burchell, author of "In the Days of King James." 12mo. Cloth, extra. $1.50.
A highly successful romance, of general interest and of creditable workmanship.—London Athenæum.
Pastor Naudié's Young Wife.By Édouard Rod. Translated from the French by Bradley Gilman. 12mo. Cloth. $1.25.