"This is Mary Johnston's greatest book."--_Cleveland Plain Dealer._
"An extraordinarily graphic picture of the witchcraft delusion in England in the age that followed Queen Elizabeth's death."--_San Francisco Chronicle._
"Far more artistic than anything that Miss Johnston has written since 'To Have and To Hold.'"--_Providence Journal._
HOUGHTON BOSTON MIFFLIN [Illustration] AND COMPANY NEW YORK
A story of two young lovers--students in far-away Vienna--and their struggle with poverty and temptation. Incidentally, a graphic picture of life in the war-worn city of the Hapsburgs.
"Fresh and clean and sweet--a story which makes one feel the better for having read it and wish that he could know all of your dear characters."--_California._
"Little that has been written in the last decade has given me such pleasure, and nothing has moved me to pen to an author a word of praise until to-day."--_Utah._
"'The Street of Seven Stars' will be read fifty years from now, and will still be helping people to be braver and better."--_New York._
"It stands far above any recent fiction I have read."--_Massachusetts._
"Quite the best thing you have ever written."--_Connecticut._
HOUGHTON BOSTON MIFFLIN [Illustration] AND COMPANY NEW YORK
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