ssesses in an extraordinary degree the
art of constructing a story. His sense of
proportion is just, and his narrative flows along
with ease and perspicuity. It is as if it could
not have been written otherwise, so naturally does
the story unfold itself, and so logical and
consistent is the sequence of incident after
incident. As a story 'Marzio's Crucifix' is
perfectly constructed."--_New York Commercial
Advertiser._

KHALED.

A Story of Arabia.

"Throughout the fascinating story runs the
subtlest analysis, suggested rather than
elaborately worked out, of human passion and
motive, the building out and development of the
character of the woman who becomes the hero's wife
and whose love he finally wins, being an
especially acute and highly finished example of
the story-teller's art. . . . That it is beautifully
written and holds the interest of the reader,
fanciful as it all is, to the very end, none who
know the depth and artistic finish of Mr.
Crawford's work need be told."--_The Chicago
Times._

PAUL PATOFF.

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MACMILLAN & CO.,
66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK.

ZOROASTER.

"The field of Mr. Crawford's imagination appears
to be unbounded. . . . In 'Zoroaster' Mr. Crawford's
winged fancy ventures a daring flight. . . . Yet
'Zoroaster' is a novel rather than a drama. It is
a drama in the force of its situations and in the
poetry and dignity of its language; but its men
and women are not men and women of a play. By the
naturalness of their conversation and behavior
they seem to live and lay hold of our human
sympathy more than the same characters on a stage
could possibly do."--_The Times._

A TALE OF A LONELY PARISH.

"It is a pleasure to have anything so perfect of
its kind as this brief and vivid story. . . . It is
doubly a success, being full of human sympathy, as
well as thoroughly artistic in its nice balancing
of the unusual with the commonplace, the clever
juxtaposition of innocence and guilt, comedy and
tragedy, simplicity and intrigue."--