Marion Darche: A Story Without CommentCrawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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Marion Darche: A Story Without Comment
Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
Married women -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
The novel opens with a magnificent description of the march of the
Babylonian court to Belshazzar's feast, with the sudden and awful
ending of the latter by the marvelous writing on the wall which Daniel
is called to interpret. From that point the story moves on in a series
of grand and dramatic scenes and incidents which will not fail to hold
the reader fascinated and spell-bound to the end.--_Christian at Work._
The field of Mr. Crawford's imagination appears to be unbounded.... In
"Zoroaster" Mr. Crawford's winged fancy ventures a daring flight....
Yet "Zoroaster" is a novel rather than a drama. It is a drama in the
force of its situations and in the poetry and dignity of its language,
but its men and women are not men and women of a play. By the
naturalness of their conversation and behavior they seem to live and
lay hold of our human sympathy more than the same characters on a stage
could possibly do.--_The Times._
A TALE OF A LONELY PARISH.
Price, $1.50.
It is a pleasure to have anything so perfect of its kind as this brief
and vivid story.... It is doubly a success, being full of human
sympathy, as well as thoroughly artistic in its nice balancing of the
unusual with the commonplace, the clever juxtaposition of innocence and
guilt, comedy and tragedy, simplicity and intrigue.--_Critic._
SARACINESCA.
Price, $1.50.
His highest achievement, as yet, in the realms of fiction. The work has
two distinct merits, either of which would serve to make it
great,--that of telling a perfect story in a perfect way, and of giving
a graphic picture of Roman society in the last days of the Pope's
temporal power.... The story is exquisitely told.--_Boston Traveller._
One of the most engrossing novels we have ever read.--_Boston Times._
MARZIO'S CRUCIFIX.
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Now this is brought out in this little story with the firmness of
touch, a power and skill which belong to the first rank in art.... We
take the liberty of saying that this work belongs to the highest
department of character painting in words.--_Churchman._
"Marzio's Crucifix" is another of those tales of modern Rome which show
the author so much at his ease. A subtle compound of artistic feeling,
avarice, malice, and criminal frenzy is this carver of silver chalices
and crucifixes.--_The Times._
THE WITCH OF PRAGUE.
_A FANTASTIC TALE._
With numerous Illustrations by W. J. HENNESSY.
Price, $1.00.
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most readers will lie in its demonstration of the latest revelations of
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exposition of the far-reaching possibilities of a new science; it is a
romance of singular daring and power.--_London Academy._
KHALED:
_A TALE OF ARABIA._
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