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 (George's Mother, and Maggie.)

The Morning Post.—'Mr. Crane never wrote anything more vivid than the story in which Maggie takes the heroine's part. It is as admirable in its own field as The Red Badge of Courage in another.'

The Illustrated London News.—'Stephen Crane knew the Bowery very well, and in these two stories its characteristics come out with the realism of Mr. Arthur Morrison's studies of the East End. Both are grim and powerful sketches.'

(The Red Badge of Courage, and The Little Regiment.)

Truth.—'The pictures themselves are certainly wonderful So fine a book as Mr. Stephen Crane's Pictures of War is not to be judged pedantically.'

The Daily Graphic.—' A second reading leaves one with no whit diminished opinion of their extraordinary power. Stories they are not really, but as vivid war pictures they have scarcely been equalled One cannot recall any book which conveys to the outsider more clearly what war means to the fighters than this collection of brilliant pictures.'

The Saturday Review.—' The most artistic thing Mr. Crane has yet accomplished.'

The St. James's Gazette.—'Each tale is the concise, clear, vivid record of one sensational impression. Facts, epithets, or colours are given to the reader with a rigorousness of selection, an artfulness of restraint, that achieves an absolute clearness in the resulting imaginative vision. Mr. Crane has a personal touch of artistry that is refreshing.'

The Athenæum.—'The characters are admirably sketched and sustained. There is tenderness; there is brilliancy; there is real insight into the minds and ways of women and of men.'

The Spectator.—'Mr. Crane's plot is ingenious and entertaining, and the characterisation full of those unexpected strokes in which he excels.'

The Academy.—'The book is full of those feats of description for which the author is famous. Mr. Crane can handle the epithet with surprising, almost miraculous dexterity. Active Service quite deserve to be called a remarkable book.'