From the artistic standpoint, to have created the character of Zagloba was a feat comparable with Shakespeare’s creation of Falstaff and Goethe’s creation of Mephistopheles.—The Dial.
ANDRONIKE. The Heroine of the Greek Revolution. Translated from the Greek of Stephanos Theodonus Xenos by Edwin A. Grosvenor, Professor of European History in Amherst College, and author of “Constantinople.” 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
Modern Greece may be proud of having given the world an historical romance like this. Viewed merely as a story, it is a work of absorbing interest in its plot and execution. At the same time, no other book, whether description, travels, or pure romance, offers so faithful and complete a picture of Greek life to-day. The reader follows the vicissitudes of hero and heroine with rapt attention, and all the time seems breathing Greek air under a Greek sky and living among the Greeks.
A book well worth reading, because it is a story of thrilling interest and it presents the best description of a memorable conflict for national liberty.—Detroit Tribune.
A book which is drama and action from one end to the other. Altogether a most fascinating work.—New York Home Journal.
I AM THE KING. Being the Account of some Happenings in the Life of Godfrey de Bersac, Crusader Knight. By Sheppard Stevens. 16mo. Cloth, $1.25.
This is a romantic story of the days of Saladin and Richard Cœur de Leon. Its author has wrought into it much of the color of the home-life of the period and many of the quaint superstitions and folk-lore. The scene of the story is in part laid in England and in part in the Holy Land.
THE HEAD OF A HUNDRED. Being an Account of Certain Passages in the Life of Humphrey Huntoon, Esq., sometyme an Officer in the Colony of Virginia. Edited by Maud Wilder Goodwin, author of “The Colonial Cavalier.” 16mo. Cloth, extra, gilt top, $1.25.
It is as sweet and pure a piece of fiction as we have read for many a day, breathing, as it does, the same noble air, the lofty tone, and the wholesome sentiment of “Lorna Doone.”—The Bookman.