“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 New York Times._ =The Witch of Prague= (Bohemia) _“A fantastic tale,” illustrated by W. J. Hennessy._ “The artistic skill with which this extraordinary story is constructed and carried out is admirable and delightful.… Mr. Crawford has scored a decided triumph, for the interest of the tale is sustained throughout.… A very remarkable, powerful, and interesting story.”—_New York Tribune._ =Paul Patoff= (Constantinople) “Mr. Crawford has a marked talent for assimilating local color, not to make mention of a broader historical sense. Even though he may adopt, as it is the romancer’s right to do, the extreme romantic view of history, it is always a living and moving picture that he evolves for us, varied and stirring.”—_New York Evening Post._ =Marietta= (Venice) “No living writer can surpass Mr. Crawford in the construction of a complicated plot and the skilful unravelling of the tangled skein.”—_Chicago Record-Herald._ “He has gone back to the field of his earlier triumphs, and has, perhaps, scored the greatest triumph of them all.”—_New York Herald._ _In the binding of the new Uniform Edition, each, $1.50_ =Via Crucis.= A Romance of the Second Crusade. Illustrated by Louis Loeb “_Via Crucis.…_ A tale of former days, possessing an air of reality and an absorbing interest such as few writers since Scott have been able to accomplish when dealing with historical characters.”—_Boston Transcript._ =In the Palace of the King= (Spain) “_In the Palace of the King_ is a masterpiece; there is a picturesqueness, a sincerity which will catch all readers in an agreeable storm of emotion, and even leave a hardened reviewer impressed and delighted.”—_Literature, London._ =With the Immortals= “The strange central idea of the story could have occurred only to a writer whose mind was very sensitive to the current of modern thought and progress, while its execution, the setting it forth in proper literary clothing, could be successfully attempted only by one whose active literary ability should be fully equalled by his power of assimilative knowledge both literary and scientific, and no less by his courage and capacity for hard work. The book will be found to have a fascination entirely new for the habitual reader of novels. Indeed, Mr. Crawford has succeeded in taking his readers quite above the ordinary plane of novel interest.”—_Boston Advertiser._ =Children of the King= (Calabria)