_The Nation_: "Floods of light on the _raison d'être_, origin, and methods of the dark figure that directs the destinies of our cities.... So strongly imagined and logically drawn that it satisfies the demand for the appearance of truth in art.... Telling scenes and incidents and descriptions of political organization, all of which are literal transcripts of life and fact--not dry irrelevancies thrown in by way of imparting information, but lively detail, needful for a clear understanding of Stirling's progress from the humble chairmanship of a primary to the dictator's throne.... In the use of dramatic possibilities, Mr. Ford is discreet and natural, and without giving Stirling a heroic pose, manages to win for him very hearty sympathy and belief. Stirling's private and domestic story is well knit with that of his public adventures.... A very good novel." _The Atlantic Monthly_: "Commands our very sincere respect ... there is no glaring improbability about his story ... the highly dramatic crisis of the story.... The tone and manner of the book are noble.... A timely, manly, thoroughbred, and eminently suggestive book." _The Review of Reviews_: "His relations with women were of unconventional sincerity and depth.... Worth reading on several accounts." _The Dial_: "One of the strongest and most vital characters that have appeared in our fiction.... A very charming love-story. To discern the soul of good in so evil a thing as Municipal politics calls for sympathies that are not often united with a sane ethical outlook; but Peter Stirling is possessed of the one without losing his sense of the other, and it is this combination of qualities that make him so impressive and admirable a figure.... Both a readable and an ethically helpful book." _The New York Tribune_: "A portrait which is both alive and easily recognizable." _New York Times_: "Mr. Ford's able political novel." _The Literary World_: "A fine, tender love-story.... A very unusual but, let us believe, a possible character.... Peter Stirling is a man's hero.... Very readable and enjoyable." _The Independent_: "Full of life. The interest never flags.... It is long since we have read a better novel or one more thoroughly and naturally American." _The Boston Advertiser_: "Sure to excite attention and win popularity." Anthony Hope's Romances In Buckram Series. 18mo, with Frontispieces, 75 cents each. The Prisoner of Zenda. _32d Edition._ "A glorious story, which cannot be too warmly recommended to all who love a tale that stirs the blood. Perhaps not the least among its many good qualities is the fact that its chivalry is of the nineteenth, not of the sixteenth, century; that it is a tale of brave men and true, and of a fair woman of to-day. The Englishman who saves the king ... is as interesting a knight as was Bayard.... The story holds the reader's attention from first to last."--_Critic._ The Indiscretion of the Duchess. _10th Edition._