"Mr. Crawford has taken a love story of vital interest and has related the web of facts simply, swiftly, and with moderation ... a story as brilliant as it is romantic in its setting. Here his genius for story telling is seen at its best."--_Boston Herald._ "For sustained intensity and graphic description Marion Crawford's new novel is inapproachable in the field of recent fiction."--_Times Union_, Albany. "Don John of Austria's secret marriage with the daughter of one of King Philip's officers is the culminating point of this story.... An assassination, a near approach to a palace revolution, a great scandal, and some very pretty love-making, besides much planning and plotting, take place."--_Boston Transcript._ "Mr. Crawford wastes no time in trying to re-create history, but puts his reader into the midst of those bygone scenes and makes him live in them.... In scenes of stirring dramatic intensity.... It all seems intensely real so long as one is under the novelist's spell."--_Chicago Tribune._ "No man lives who can endow a love tale with a rarer charm than Crawford."--_San Francisco Evening Bulletin._ "No book of the season has been more eagerly anticipated, and none has given more complete satisfaction ... a drama of marvellous power and exceptional brilliancy, forceful and striking ... holding the reader's interest spell-bound from the first page of the story to the last, reached all too soon."--_The Augusta Herald._ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK THE REIGN OF LAW A Tale of the Kentucky Hempfields By JAMES LANE ALLEN _Author of "The Choir Invisible," "A Kentucky Cardinal," etc._ Illustrated by J. C. EARL and HARRY FENN Cloth. 12 mo. $1.50 "The whole book is a brilliant defence of Evolution, a scholarly statement of the case. Never before has that great science been so presented; never before has there been such a passionate yet thrilling appeal."--_Courier Journal._ "This is a tremendous subject to put into a novel; but the effort is so daring, and the treatment so frank and masterly on its scientific side, that the book is certain to command a wide hearing, perhaps to provoke wide controversy."--_Tribune_, Chicago. "'When a man has heard the great things calling to him, how they call, and call, day and night, day and night!' This is really the foundation idea, the golden text, of Mr. James Lane Allen's new and remarkable novel."--_Evening Transcript_, Boston. "In all the characteristics that give Mr. Allen's novels such distinction and charm 'The Reign of Law' is perhaps supreme ... but it is pre-eminently the study of a soul ... religion is here the dominant note."--_The New York Times' Saturday Review._ "In David there is presented one of the noblest types of our fiction; the incarnation of brilliant mentality and splendid manhood.... No portrait in contemporary literature is more symbolic of truth and honor."--_The Times_, Louisville.