Part 3 — QUO VADIS
Max A. (Max Anthony) Drezmal translation
A Narrative of the Time of Nero. By Henryk Sienkiewicz. Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. $1.50 net.
One of the greatest books of our day.--The Bookman.
The book is like a grand historical pageant.--Literary World.
Of intense interest to the whole Christian civilization.--Chicago Tribune.
Interest never wanes; and the story is carried through its many phases of conflict and terror to a climax that enthralls.--Chicago Record.
As a study of the introduction of the gospel of love into the pagan world typified by Rome, it is marvellously fine.--Chicago Interior.
The picture here given of life in Rome under the last of the Caesars is one of unparalleled power and vividness.--Boston Home Journal.
One of the most remarkable books of the decade. It burns upon the brain the struggles and triumphs of the early church.--Boston Daily Advertiser.
It will become recognized by virtue of its own merits as the one heroic monument built by the modern novelist above the ruins of decadent Rome, and in honor of the blessed martyrs of the early Church.--Brooklyn Eagle.
Our debt to Sienkiewicz is not less than our debt to his translator and friend, Jeremiah Curtin. The diversity of the language, the rapid flow of thought, the picturesque imagery of the descriptions are all his.--Boston Transcript.
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THE KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS
An Historical Romance of Poland and Germany. By Henryk Sienkiewicz. Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. Illustrated. Crown 8vo. $2.00 net.
The greatest work Sienkiewicz has given us.--Buffalo Express.
It seems superior even to "Quo Vadis" in strength and realism.--The Churchman.
The construction of the story is beyond praise. It is difficult to conceive of any one who will not pick the book up with eagerness.--Chicago Evening Post.
There are some scenes in the book that for power and excitement remind one of the great encounter between Ursus and the bull in "Quo Vadis."--Minneapolis Tribune.
Vivid, dramatic, and vigorous.... His imaginative power, his command of language, and the picturesque scenes he sets combine to fascinate the reader.--Philadelphia Bulletin.
A book that holds your almost breathless attention as in a vise from the very beginning, for in it love and strife, the most thrilling of all worldly subjects, are described masterfully.--The Boston Journal.
Another remarkable book. His descriptions are tremendously effective; one can almost hear the sound of the carnage; to the mind's eye the scene of battle is unfolded by a master artist.--The Hartford Courant.
Thrillingly dramatic, full of strange local color and very faithful to its period, besides having that sense of the mysterious and weird that throbs in the Polish blood and infects alike their music and literature.--The St. Paul Globe.