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 Three-and-Sixpenny Library 15 THE NOVELS OF F. MARION CRAWFORD THE WITCH OF PRAGUE. ACADEMY. " Is so remarkable a book as to be certain of as wide a popularity as any of its predecessors ; it is a romance of singular daring and power." MARION DARCHE: A Story without Comment. A THENAiUM. " Readers in search of a good novel may be recommended to lose no time in making the acquaintance of Marion Darche, her devoted friends, and her one KATHARINE LAUDERDALE. PUNCH. " Admirable in its simple pathos, its unforced humour, and, above all, in ts truth to human nature." THE CHILDREN OF THE KING. DAILY CHRONICLE. "Ur. Crawford has not done better than The Children ot the King for a long time. The story itself is a simple and beautiful one. :> PIETRO GHISLERI. SPEAKER. " Mr. Marion Crawford is an artist, and a great one, and he has been brilliantly successful in a task in which ninety-nine out of every hundred writers would have failed." DON ORSINO. ATHENAEUM. "Don Orsino is a story with many strong points, and it is told with all the spirit we have been wont to expect from its author." CASA BRACCIO. GUARDIAN. "A very powerful story and a finished work of art." ADAM JOHNSTONE'S SON. DAILY NEWS. "Mr. Crawford has written stories richer in incident and more powerful in intention, but we do not think that he has handled more deftly or shown a more delicate insight into tendencies that go towards making some of the more spiritual tragedies of life." CORLEONE: A Tale of Sicily. PALL MALL GAZETTE." A splendid romance.' VIA CRUCIS: A Romance of the Second Crusade. GRAPHIC. " A stirring story. 1 IN THE PALACE OF THE KING: A Love Story of Old Madrid. SPECTA TOR. "A truly thrilling tale." CECILIA: A Story of Modern Rome. TIMES, " Thoroughly interesting from beginning to end. . . . Fully worthy of his reputation." ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. "Can only enhance Mr. Crawford's reputation. . . . Admirably treated with all the subtlety, finesse, and delicacy which are characteristic of the author at his best." MARIETTA: A Maid of Venice. PUNCH. " Marion Crawford is at his very best in Marietta, A Maid of Venice. It it a powerfully dramatic story of Venice under 'The Ten,' told in a series of picturesque scenes described in strikingly artistic word-painting, the action being carried on by well- imagined clearly-defined characters."