great unknown
world beyond the footlights.

The Primadonna

"Mr. Crawford is at his best in this romance. He tells an absorbing
story, and he places at the centre of it a woman whose character is
full of interest.... It is a dramatic beginning, and Mr. Crawford
goes on as he begins ... the whole tangled business becomes more
and more exciting and we follow the Primadonna through the
proceedings with breathless interest."--_New York Tribune._

The Diva's Ruby

"F. Marion Crawford is one of the few writers who have mastered the
art of writing sequels that are as vital and as absorbing as the
original novels ... sequels wherein the finding of a character
mentioned in an earlier story gives us the full delight of meeting
an old friend.... This delicate paradoxical evolution ... is art,
clean, deft, easy, dexterous art. There are not half a dozen men in
literature to-day who could do these things consistently."--_New
York Times Review._

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The Choir Invisible

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"One reads the story for the story's sake, and then re-reads the
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the very core.... Mr. Allen stands to-day in the front rank of
American novelists. _The Choir Invisible_ will solidify a
reputation already established and bring into clear light his rare
gifts as an artist. For this latest story is as genuine a work of
art as has come from an American hand."--HAMILTON MABIE in
_The Outlook_.

The Reign of Law. A Tale of the Kentucky Hempfields

"Mr. Allen has a style as original and almost as perfectly finished
as Hawthorne's, and he has also Hawthorne's fondness for spiritual
suggestion that makes all his stories rich in the qualities that
are lacking in so many novels of the period.... If read in the
right way, it cannot fail to add to one's spiritual
possessions."--_San Francisco Chronicle._

The Mettle of the Pasture

"It may be that _The Mettle of the Pasture_ will live and become a
part of our literature; it certainly will live far beyond the
allotted term of present-day fiction. Our principal concern is that