"The story is wonderfully brilliant.... The interest never lags; the style is realistic and intense; and there is a constantly underlying current of subtle humor.... It is, in short, a book which no student of modern literature should fail to read."--_Boston Times._ "A story of remarkable interest and point."--_New York Observer._ _JOOST AVELINGH._ By MAARTEN MAARTENS. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. "So unmistakably good as to induce the hope that an acquaintance with the Dutch literature of fiction may soon become more general among us."--_London Morning Post._ "In scarcely any of the sensational novels of the day will the reader find more nature or more human nature."--_London Standard._ "A novel of a very high type. At once strongly realistic and powerfully idealistic."--_London Literary World._ "Full of local color and rich in quaint phraseology and suggestion."--_London Telegraph._ "Maarten Maartens is a capital story-teller."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ "Our English writers of fiction will have to look to their laurels."--_Birmingham Daily Post._ TWO REMARKABLE AMERICAN NOVELS. _THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. An Episode of the American Civil War._ By STEPHEN CRANE. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00. "Mr. Stephen Crane is a great artist, with something new to say, and consequently with a new way of saying it.... In 'The Red Badge of Courage' Mr. Crane has surely contrived a masterpiece.... He has painted a picture that challenges comparisons with the most vivid scenes of Tolstoy's 'La Guerre et la Paix' or of Zola's 'La Débâcle.'"--_London New Review._ "In its whole range of literature we can call to mind nothing so searching in its analysis, so manifestly impressed with the stamp of truth, as 'The Red Badge of Courage.' ... A remarkable study of the average mind under stress of battle.... We repeat, a really fine achievement."--_London Daily Chronicle._ "Not merely a remarkable book; it is a revelation.... One feels that, with perhaps one or two exceptions, all previous descriptions of modern warfare have been the merest abstractions."--_St. James Gazette._ "Holds one irrevocably. There is no possibility of resistance when once you are in its grip, from the first of the march of the troops to the closing scenes.... Mr. Crane, we repeat, has written a remarkable book. His insight and his power of realization amount to genius."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ "There is nothing in American fiction to compare with it in the vivid, uncompromising, almost aggressive vigor with which it depicts the strangely mingled conditions that go to make up what men call war.... Mr. Crane has added to American literature something that has never been done before, and that is, in its own peculiar way, inimitable."--_Boston Beacon._