[Footnote 6]: This man is mentioned on page 224.
[Footnote 7]: Jewish pronunciation of vivant.
[Footnote 8]: Carolus Dux Lotharingiae Joanni III, Poloniae Regi, etc. Julius 31, 1683.
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THE ZAGLOBA ROMANCES by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. WITH FIRE AND SWORD An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. $1.50. The first of the famous trilogy of historical romances of Poland, Russia, and Sweden. Their publication has been received as an event in literature. Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper's Magazine, affirms that the Polish author has in Zagloba given a new creation to literature. A capital story. The only modern romance with which it can be compared for fire, sprightliness, rapidity of action, swift changes, and absorbing interest is "The Three Musketeers" of Dumas.--New York Tribune. THE DELUGE An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. A Sequel to "With Fire and Sword." With map. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. $3.00. Marvellous in its grand descriptions.--Chicago Inter-Ocean. Has the humor of a Cervantes and the grim vigor of Defoe.--Boston Gazette. PAN MICHAEL An Historical Novel of Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine. A Sequel to "With Fire and Sword" and "The Deluge." Crown 8vo. $1.50. The interest of the trilogy, both historical and romantic, is splendidly sustained.--The Dial, Chicago. LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY, Publishers Boston, Massachusetts |
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QUO VADIS
A Narrative of the Time of Nero. By Henryk Sienkiewicz. Translated from
the 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.--Chicago
Tribune.
Interest never wanes; and the story is carried through its many phases
of conflict and terror to a climax that enthralls.--Chicago Record.
As a study of the introduction of the gospel of love into the pagan
world typified by Rome, it is marvellously fine.--Chicago Interior.
The picture here given of life in Rome under the last of the Caesars is
one of unparalleled power and vividness.--Boston Home Journal.
One of the most remarkable books of the decade. It burns upon the brain
the struggles and triumphs of the early church.--Boston Daily
Advertiser.
It will become recognized by virtue of its own merits as the one heroic
monument built by the modern novelist above the ruins of decadent Rome,
and in honor of the blessed martyrs of the early Church.--Brooklyn
Eagle.
Our debt to Sienkiewicz is not less than our debt to his translator
and friend, Jeremiah Curtin. The diversity of the language, the rapid
flow of thought, the picturesque imagery of the descriptions are all
his.--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.--The
Churchman.
The construction of the story is beyond praise. It is difficult
to conceive of any one who will not pick the book up with
eagerness.--Chicago Evening Post.
There are some scenes in the book that for power and excitement
remind one of the great encounter between Ursus and the bull in "Quo
Vadis."--Minneapolis Tribune.
Vivid, dramatic, and vigorous.... His imaginative power, his command of
language, and the picturesque scenes he sets combine to fascinate the
reader.--Philadelphia Bulletin.
A book that holds your almost breathless attention as in a vise from
the very beginning, for in it love and strife, the most thrilling of
all 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 the
scene of battle is unfolded by a master artist.--The Hartford
Courant.
Thrillingly dramatic, full of strange local color and very faithful to
its period, besides having that sense of the mysterious and weird that
throbs in the Polish blood and infects alike their music and
literature.--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 its author to be almost as great a master in the field of the domestic novel as he had previously been shown to be in that of imaginative historical 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 his longer romances. They abound in fine character-drawings and beautiful descriptions.--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.--Boston Beacon. LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY, Publishers Boston, Massachusetts |