STEPHEN CRANE'S WORKS
THE THIRD VIOLET
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The Athenæum—"A vividness of portraiture which putsThe Third Violeton a high level—higher, we think, than Mr. Crane's very differentMaggie, though perhaps lower thanThe Little Regiment, which is also very different. In his present book Mr. Crane is more the rival of Mr. Henry James than of Mr. Rudyard Kipling. But he is intensely American, which can hardly be said of Mr. Henry James, and it is possible that if he continues in his present line of writing he may be the author who will introduce the United States to the ordinary English world. We have never come across a book that brought certain sections of American society so perfectly before the reader as doesThe Third Violet. The picture is an extremely pleasant one, and its truth appeals to the English reader, so that the effect of the book is to draw him nearer to his American cousins.The Third Violetincidentally contains the best dog that we have come across in modern fiction. Mr. Crane's dialogue is excellent, and it is dialogue of a type for which neitherThe Red Badge of Couragenor his other books had prepared us."
The Academy—"By this latest product of his genius our impression of Mr. Crane is confirmed: that for psychological insight, for dramatic intensity, and for potency of phrase he is already in the front rank of English-American writers of fiction, and that he possesses a certain separate quality which places him apart. It is a short story and a slender, but taking it in conjunction with what he has previously given us, there remains, in our judgment, no room for doubt."
The Bookman—"An idyll, and a very pretty one. InThe Red Badge of CourageandMaggiethere is an intenser force; but in this slighter effort we feel the same directness, the same true reading of the workings of the mind, the same contempt for conventions and clap-trap sentiment."
The Sketch—"There is a strong human interest in it, and a boyish vigour which is refreshing."
The Scotsman—"It is very light, very amusing, and very American. The literary touch is singularly deft and felicitous, the strokes playful but unerring.... The treatment has the distinction which only a vivid imagination, a fine dramatic faculty and an intuitive perception of the deeper things of human nature can give to a book."
Manchester Guardian—"It is invigorating to follow the breezy mountain life up in the pine woods.... The book abounds in those felicitous descriptions and bright dialogues of which Mr. Crane is master.... One more delightful dog is added to the heroes of fiction."
Daily Mail—"We would not for the world have it other than it is.... In its short tantalisingly abrupt chapters, the tale gives the history of a wooing, a history clear, simple, and often sparkling as a rill of spring water."
MAGGIE: A Child of the Streets
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The Literary World—"Contains all the force, all the power, and all the reality which Mr. Crane has proved his pen to possess."
THE BLACK RIDERS: Verse
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