"An exciting tale ... distinctly a book to read and enjoy."—Daily Mail.
"A vigorous and exciting story. Some part of the action of the book is laid in Java, and the catastrophe of Krakatoa is described with a vividness that makes real to us that appalling upheaving of Nature."—Daily News.
The Poor Plutocrats. (As We Grow Old.) (Fourth Edition.)
By Maurus Jókai. Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. With a fine Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jókai.
"Distinctly a novel of incident and adventure, the whole atmosphere is fresh and new; the ways of life, the people of those curious towns and villages and lonely mountains, are a revelation and a novelty. Put before us by the pen of a master like Jókai, the effect is to stir and interest in an unusual degree."—Daily Chronicle.
The Day of Wrath. (Fifth Edition.)
By Maurus Jókai. Translated from the Hungarian by R. Nisbet Bain. With a Photogravure Portrait of Dr. Jókai.
"It is wildly exciting—having once begun you cannot stop, but must go hurtling on to the end. The descriptive passages are remarkably vivid and lucid."—Black and White.
Dr. Dumany's Wife. (Fourth Edition.)