_St. James's Gazette_--"This is not merely a remarkable book; it is a revelation Mr. Crane has laid the War God on the dissecting-table, and exposed his every bone and nerve and sinew and artery to the public gaze." _The Speaker_--"Every page is crowded, not merely with incidents such as the war correspondent describes, but with the tragedy of life. The reader sees the battle, not from afar, but from the inside. He hears the laboured breathing of the wearied soldiers, sees the colour rising and falling in their cheeks, and feels at heart as they themselves did in this first act in the tremendous drama which so many people talk about and so few understand.... As a work of art, _The Red Badge of Courage_ deserves high praise. As a moral lesson that mankind still needs, the praise it deserves is higher still." --------- THE LITTLE REGIMENT _Post 8vo, cloth, 3s. net; ornamental wrapper, 2s. 6d. net._ [PIONEER SERIES. _The Athenæum_--"The extraordinary power of imagination is more wonderful than that of Defoe. It is in dialogue that he is at his strongest, for in this the words are used as the soldiers would have used them." --------------- London: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 Bedford Street, W.C. ************************************* STEPHEN CRANE'S WORKS --------- THE THIRD VIOLET _Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s._ _The Athenæum_--"A vividness of portraiture which puts _The Third Violet_ on a high level--higher, we think, than Mr. Crane's very different _Maggie_, though perhaps lower than _The Little Regiment_, which is also very different. In his present book Mr. Crane is more the rival of Mr. Henry James than of Mr. Rudyard Kipling. But he is intensely American, which can hardly be said of Mr. Henry James, and it is possible that if he continues in his present line of writing he may be the author who will introduce the United States to the ordinary English world. We have never come across a book that brought certain sections of American society so perfectly before the reader as does _The Third Violet_. The picture is an extremely pleasant one, and its truth appeals to the English reader, so that the effect of the book is to draw him nearer to his American cousins. _The Third Violet_ incidentally contains the best dog that we have come across in modern fiction. Mr. Crane's dialogue is excellent, and it is dialogue of a type for which neither _The Red Badge of Courage_ nor his other books had prepared us."