TIMES OF GUSTAF ADOLF,
TIMES OF BATTLE AND REST,
TIMES OF CHARLES XII.,
TIMES OF FREDERICK I.,
TIMES OF LINNÆUS,
TIMES OF ALCHEMY.
| In cloth, per volume | $ 1.25 |
| The same, in box, per set | 7.50 |
| In half calf, per set | 16.50 |
| In half morocco, per set | 18.00 |
These stories have been everywhere received with the greatest favor. They cover the most interesting and exciting periods of Swedish and Finnish history. They combine history and romance, and the two are woven together in so skilful and attractive a manner that the reader of one volume is rarely satisfied until he has read all. Of their distinguished author the Saturday Review, London, says: “He enjoys the greatest celebrity among living Swedish writers;” and R. H. Stoddard has styled them “the most important and certainly the most readable series of foreign fiction that has been translated into English for many years.” They should stand on the shelves of every library, public and private, beside the works of Sir Walter Scott.
The Graphic, New York, says:
“Topelius is evidently a great romancer,—a great romancer in the manner of Walter Scott. At moments in his writing there is positive inspiration, a truth and vivid reality that are startling.”
The Sun, Philadelphia, says:
“We would much prefer teaching a youth Swedish history from the novels of Topelius than from any book of strict historical narrative.”
BIOGRAPHIES OF MUSICIANS.