Author of “The Call of the Wild,” “The Faith of Men,” etc.
“‘The Sea–Wolf,’ Jack London’s latest novel of adventure, is one that every reader with good red blood in his veins will hail with delight. There is no fumbling of the trigger here, no nervous and uncertain sighting along the barrel, but the quick, decisive aim and the bull’s–eye every time.”—_Mail and Express_ (New York).
Author of “Richard Carvel,” “The Crisis,” “The Celebrity,” etc.
“Is a great and graphic picture of the winning of the West ... in many wonderfully animate and realistic scenes, that show every phase of border life a century and a quarter ago. It is the greatest composite picture of the kind ever attempted and Mr. Churchill has succeeded admirably.”—_Pittsburg Gazette._
The Queen’s Quair, or The Six Years’ Tragedy
Author of “Richard Yea–and–Nay,” “The Forest Lovers,” etc.
“Mr. Hewlett has penetrated and exhibited the wild heart of the Queen and the black hearts of the miscreants who destroyed her. His vision of the Queen is wonderfully complete and vivid.... The writing of ‘The Queen’s Quair’ is a literary achievement of high order. The author has worked with brain and heart, and by a perfect sincerity his style has been strengthened and chastened.”—_The Nation._
Author of “The Heart of Rome,” “Saracinesca,” “Via Crucis,” etc.
“Not since George Eliot’s ‘Romola’ brought her to her foreordained place among the literary mortals has there appeared in English fiction a character at once so strong and sensitive, so entirely and consistently human, so urgent and compelling in its appeal to sustained, sympathetic interest.”—_Philadelphia North American._
Author of “The Real World,” “The Web of Life,” etc.
“Mr. Herrick has written a novel of searching insight and absorbing interest; a first–rate story ... sincere to the very core in its matter and in its art.”—HAMILTON W. MABIE.
“The book is a bit of the living America of to–day, a true picture of one of its most significant phases ... living, throbbing with reality.”—_N. Y. Evening Mail._
Author of “The Influence of Christ in Modern Life,” etc.
“In this story Mr. Hillis has woven the life of the Middle West, the heroism and holiness of those descendants of the New England Puritans who emigrated still farther into the wilderness. The story is of great spiritual significance, and yet of the earth, earthy—hence its strength and vitality.”—_Montreal Daily Star._