There are some scenes in the book that for power and excitement remind one of the great encounter between Ursus and the bull in "Quo Vadis."--_Minneapolis Tribune._ Vivid, dramatic, and vigorous.... His imaginative power, his command of language, and the picturesque scenes he sets combine to fascinate the reader.--_Philadelphia Bulletin._ A book that holds your almost breathless attention as in a vise from the very beginning, for in it love and strife, the most thrilling of all worldly subjects, are described masterfully.--_The Boston Journal._ Another remarkable book. His descriptions are tremendously effective; one can almost hear the sound of the carnage; to the mind's eye the scene of battle is unfolded by a master artist.--_The Hartford Courant._ Thrillingly dramatic, full of strange local color and very faithful to its period, besides having that sense of the mysterious and weird that throbs in the Polish blood and infects alike their music and literature.--_The St. Paul Globe._ _OTHER NOVELS AND ROMANCES by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin._ CHILDREN OF THE SOIL Crown 8vo. $1.50. It must be reckoned among the finer fictions of our time, and shows its author to be almost as great a master in the field of the domestic novel as he had previously been shown to be in that of imaginative historical romances.--_The Dial_, Chicago. HANIA, AND OTHER STORIES With portrait. Crown 8vo. $1.50. At the highest level of the author's genius.--_The Outlook._ SIELANKA, A FOREST PICTURE And Other Stories. With frontispiece. Crown 8vo. $1.50. They exhibit the masterly genius of Sienkiewicz even better than his longer romances. They abound in fine character-drawings and beautiful descriptions.--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._ LIFE AND DEATH AND OTHER LEGENDS AND STORIES Illustrated. 16mo. Decorated cloth, $1.00. WITHOUT DOGMA A Novel of Modern Poland. (Translated from the Polish by Iza Young.) Crown 8vo. $1.50. A human document read in the light of a great imagination.--_Boston Beacon._ LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations.