“One of the most artistic and exquisitely finished pieces of work that Crawford has produced. The picturesque setting, Calabria and its surroundings, the beautiful Sorrento and the Gulf of Salerno, with the bewitching accessories that climate, sea, and sky afford, give Mr. Crawford rich opportunities to show his rare descriptive powers. As a whole the book is strong and beautiful through its simplicity, and ranks among the choicest of the author’s many fine productions.”—_Public Opinion._ =A Cigarette Maker’s Romance= (Munich) and =Khaled=, a Tale of Arabia “Two gems of subtle analysis of human passion and motive.”—_Times._ “The interest is unflagging throughout. Never has Mr. Crawford done more brilliant realistic work than here. But his realism is only the case and cover for those intense feelings which, placed under no matter what humble conditions, produce the most dramatic and the most tragic situations.… This is a secret of genius, to take the most coarse and common material, the meanest surroundings, the most sordid material prospects, and out of the vehement passions which sometimes dominate all human beings to build up with these poor elements, scenes and passages the dramatic and emotional power of which at once enforce attention and awaken the profoundest interest.”—_New York Tribune._ =Fair Margaret.= A Portrait “An exhilarating romance … alluring in its naturalness and grace.”—_Boston Herald._ WITH SCENES LAID IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA _In the binding of the Uniform Edition_ =A Tale of a Lonely Parish= “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._ =Dr. Claudius.= A True Story The scene changes from Heidelberg to New York, and much of the story develops during the ocean voyage. “There is a satisfying quality in Mr. Crawford’s strong, vital, forceful stories.”—_Boston Herald._ =An American Politician.= The scenes are laid in Boston “It need scarcely be said that the story is skilfully and picturesquely written, portraying sharply individual characters in well-defined surroundings.”—_New York Commercial Advertiser._ =The Three Fates= “Mr. Crawford has manifestly brought his best qualities as a student of human nature and his finest resources as a master of an original and picturesque style to bear upon this story. Taken for all in all, it is one of the most pleasing of all his productions in fiction, and it affords a view of certain phases of American, or perhaps we should say of New York, life that have not hitherto been treated with anything like the same adequacy and felicity.”—_Boston Beacon._ =Marion Darche=