"Mr. Allen has style as original and almost as perfectly finished as Hawthorne's.... And rich in the qualities that are lacking in so many novels of the period."--_San Francisco Chronicle._
"One of the most interesting works of the foremost American novelist."
"A big, simple, leisurely moving chronicle of life. Commands the profoundest respect and admiration. Jim is a real man, sound and fine."--_Daily News._
"A story of modern life in Italy, visualizing the country and its people, and warm with the red blood of romance and melodrama."--_Boston Transcript._
"There are many incidents so vivid, so brilliant, that they fix themselves in the memory."--NANCY HUSTON BANKS in _The Bookman._
"Read the story for the sake of the living, breathing people, the adventures, but most for the sake of the boy who served love and the King."--_Chicago Record-Herald._
"It is full of nature in many phases--of breeze and sunshine, of the glory of the land, and the sheer joy of living."--_New York Times._
"... full of fresh feeling and grace of style, a draught from the fountain of youth."--_Outlook._
"A story of present-day life, intensely real in its picture of a young architect whose ideals in the beginning were, at their highest, æsthetic rather than spiritual. It is an unusual novel of great interest."
"No reader of Jack London's stories need be told that this abounds with romantic and dramatic incident."--_Los Angeles Tribune._
"Jack London has outdone himself in 'Burning Daylight.'"--_The Springfield Union._
"It gives a more graphic picture of the life of the rich Turkish women of to-day than anything that has ever been written."--_Brooklyn Daily Eagle._
"He displays himself as an intellectual and amusing observer of life's foibles with a hero characterized by inimitable kindness and humor."--_The Independent._
"'The Four Feathers' is a first-rate story, with more legitimate thrills than any novel we have read in a long time."--_New York Press._
"Worth its weight in gold."--_Catholic Columbian._
"'The Long Road' is a tragic, heart-gripping story of Russian political and social conditions."--_The Craftsman._
"The story is one in which the spirit of the Old South figures largely; adventure and romance have their play and carry the plot to a satisfying end."