"It deals, in the main, with the cruel bondage of the Israelites in Egypt, and is remarkably varied in incident and impressive in dramatic power. The interest is uncommonly exciting, and is sustained with great skill to the very end. A fine poetic feeling pervades the narrative, and the descriptive portions of the book often glow with picturesque splendor. The work is also very attractive in the cleverness and the vividness with which the manners and people of ancient Egypt are depicted, showing in this aspect careful thought and study. The story may take a foremost rank in the long line of German romances which have aimed at reproducing the life of antiquity."--_Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, May 23, 1886._ =THE CHALDEAN MAGICIAN.=--An Adventure in Ancient Rome, by =Ernst Eckstein=, from the German by Mary J. Safford. One vol. Paper, 25 cts. Cloth, 50 cts. "The 'Chaldean Magician' is a tale of Rome in the days of the Emperor Diocletian, and is an expose of the so-called magical art of that period. The love story which runs through it will please the sentimental, while the pictures given of Roman life and society will interest the general reader."--_Chicago Evening Journal._ _William S. Gottsberger, Publisher, New York._ * * * * * =QUINTUS CLAUDIUS.=--A Romance of Imperial Rome, by =Ernst Eckstein=, from the German by Clara Bell, in two vols. Paper, $1.00. Cloth, $1.75. "We owe to Eckstein the brilliant romance of 'Quintus Claudius,' which Clara Bell has done well to translate for us, for it is worthy of place beside the Emperor of Ebers and the Aspasia of Hamerling. It is a story of Rome in the reign of Domitian, and the most noted characters of the time figure in its pages, which are a series of picturesque descriptions of Roman life and manners in the imperial city, and in those luxurious retreats at Baiae and elsewhere to which the wealthy Romans used to retreat from the heats of summer. It is full of stirring scenes in the streets, in the palaces, in the temples, and in the amphitheatre, and the actors therein represent every phase of Roman character, from the treacherous and cowardly Domitian and the vile Domitia down to the secret gatherings of the new sect and their exit from life in the blood-soaked sands of the arena, where they were torn in pieces by the beasts of the desert. The life and the manners of all classes at this period were never painted with a bolder pencil than by Eckstein in this masterly romance, which displays as much scholarship as invention."--_Mail and Express, N. Y._