_THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. An Episode of the American Civil War._
By STEPHEN CRANE. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
"Mr. Stephen Crane is a great artist, with something new to say, and
consequently with a new way of saying it.... In 'The Red Badge of
Courage' Mr. Crane has surely contrived a masterpiece.... He has painted
a picture that challenges comparisons with the most vivid scenes of
Tolstoy's 'La Guerre et la Paix' or of Zola's 'La Debacle.'"--_London
New Review._
"In its whole range of literature we can call to mind nothing so
searching in its analysis, so manifestly impressed with the stamp of
truth, as 'The Red Badge of Courage.' ... A remarkable study of the
average mind under stress of battle.... We repeat, a really fine
achievement."--_London Daily Chronicle._
"Not merely a remarkable book; it is a revelation.... One feels that,
with perhaps one or two exceptions, all previous descriptions of modern
warfare have been the merest abstractions."--_St. James Gazette._
"Holds one irrevocably. There is no possibility of resistance when once
you are in its grip, from the first of the march of the troops to the
closing scenes.... Mr. Crane, we repeat, has written a remarkable book.
His insight and his power of realization amount to genius."--_Pall Mall
Gazette._
"There is nothing in American fiction to compare with it in the vivid,
uncompromising, almost aggressive vigor with which it depicts the
strangely mingled conditions that go to make up what men call war....
Mr. Crane has added to American literature something that has never been
done before, and that is, in its own peculiar way, inimitable."--_Boston
Beacon._
"Never before have we had the seamy side of glorious war so well
depicted.... The action of the story throughout is splendid, and all
aglow with color, movement, and vim. The style is as keen and bright as
a sword blade, and a Kipling has done nothing better in this
line."--_Chicago Evening Post._
_IN DEFIANCE OF THE KING. A Romance of the American Revolution._
By CHAUNCEY C. HOTCHKISS. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
"The whole story is so completely absorbing that you will sit far into
the night to finish it. You lay it aside with the feeling that you have
seen a gloriously true picture of the Revolution."--_Boston Herald._
"The story is a strong one--a thrilling one. It causes the true American
to flush with excitement, to devour chapter after chapter until the eyes
smart; and it fairly smokes with patriotism."--_New York Mail and
Express._
"The heart beats quickly, and we feel ourselves taking part in the
scenes described.... Altogether the book is an addition to American
literature."--_Chicago Evening Post._
"One of the most readable novels of the year.... As a love romance it is
charming, while it is filled with thrilling adventure and deeds of
patriotic daring."--_Boston Advertiser._
"This romance seems to come the nearest to a satisfactory treatment in
fiction of the Revolutionary period that we have yet had."--_Buffalo
Courier._
"A clean, wholesome story, full of romance and interesting
adventure.... Holds the interest alike by the thread of the story
and by the incidents.... A remarkably well-balanced and absorbing
novel."--_Milwaukee Journal._
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