"Marion Crawford's latest story, 'In the Palace of the King,' is quite
up to the level of his best works for cleverness, grace of style, and
sustained interest. It is, besides, to some extent a historical story,
the scene being the royal palace at Madrid, and the author drawing the
characters of Philip II. and Don John of Austria with an attempt, in a
broad, impressionist way, at historic faithfulness. His reproduction of
the life at the Spanish court is as brilliant and picturesque as any of
his Italian scenes, and in minute study of detail is, in a real and
valuable sense, true history."--_The Advance._
"Mr. Crawford has taken a love story of vital interest and has related
the web of facts simply, swiftly, and with moderation ... a story as
brilliant as it is romantic in its setting. Here his genius for story
telling is seen at its best."--_Boston Herald._
"For sustained intensity and graphic description Marion Crawford's new
novel is inapproachable in the field of recent fiction."--_Times Union_,
Albany.
"Don John of Austria's secret marriage with the daughter of one of King
Philip's officers is the culminating point of this story.... An
assassination, a near approach to a palace revolution, a great scandal,
and some very pretty love-making, besides much planning and plotting,
take place."--_Boston Transcript._
"Mr. Crawford wastes no time in trying to re-create history, but puts
his reader into the midst of those bygone scenes and makes him live in
them.... In scenes of stirring dramatic intensity.... It all seems
intensely real so long as one is under the novelist's spell."--_Chicago
Tribune._
"No man lives who can endow a love tale with a rarer charm than
Crawford."--_San Francisco Evening Bulletin._
"No book of the season has been more eagerly anticipated, and none has
given more complete satisfaction ... a drama of marvellous power and
exceptional brilliancy, forceful and striking ... holding the reader's
interest spell-bound from the first page of the story to the last,
reached all too soon."--_The Augusta Herald._