_The Academy_--"By this latest product of his genius our impression of Mr. Crane is confirmed: that for psychological insight, for dramatic intensity, and for potency of phrase he is already in the front rank of English-American writers of fiction, and that he possesses a certain separate quality which places him apart. It is a short story and a slender, but taking it in conjunction with what he has previously given us, there remains, in our judgment, no room for doubt." _The Bookman_--"An idyll, and a very pretty one. In _The Red Badge of Courage_ and _Maggie_ there is an intenser force; but in this slighter effort we feel the same directness, the same true reading of the workings of the mind, the same contempt for conventions and clap-trap sentiment." _The Sketch_--"There is a strong human interest in it, and a boyish vigour which is refreshing." _The Scotsman_--"It is very light, very amusing, and very American. The literary touch is singularly deft and felicitous, the strokes playful but unerring.... The treatment has the distinction which only a vivid imagination, a fine dramatic faculty and an intuitive perception of the deeper things of human nature can give to a book." _Manchester Guardian_--"It is invigorating to follow the breezy mountain life up in the pine woods.... The book abounds in those felicitous descriptions and bright dialogues of which Mr. Crane is master.... One more delightful dog is added to the heroes of fiction." _Daily Mail_--"We would not for the world have it other than it is.... In its short tantalisingly abrupt chapters, the tale gives the history of a wooing, a history clear, simple, and often sparkling as a rill of spring water." --------- MAGGIE: A Child of the Streets _12mo, buckram, gilt top, 2s._ _The Literary World_--"Contains all the force, all the power, and all the reality which Mr. Crane has proved his pen to possess." --------- THE BLACK RIDERS: Verse _12mo, leather, gilt top, 3s. net._ --------------- London: WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 Bedford Street, W.C.