REGINA; OR, THE SINS OF THE FATHERS. ByHermann Sudermann.Translated byBeatrice Marshall.
THE TIMES.--"Sudermann is one of the most masterly of contemporary novelists, and it was high time that he should be presented to the English public. 'Der Katzensteg,' though far from the latest, is perhaps the most powerful of his novels, and the publisher has been well advised in selecting it. As for the translation, it is so admirably done that as we read we forget we are reading a translation."
DAILY NEWS.--"To Beatrice Marshall we owe a skilful and spirited translation of Hermann Sudermann's great novel.... The story palpitates with the passion of patriotism, of revenge, of love and hate.... The book is a strong book, and not written for babes. It gives us an insight into the patriotic passion that drives men to commit actions as savage and ignoble as it inspires them to the highest heroism. The appeal of the book lies in the development of that wonderful love-story between the two unhappy outcasts weighted with the sins of the father. To those who cannot read the story in German, we recommend this translation of a masterpiece."
DAILY GRAPHIC.--"Reginabelongs to that category in which great novels rank."
ACADEMY.--"A powerful and very deliberate tragedy.... Miss Beatrice Marshall is the translator, and, on the whole, Herr Sudermann may consider himself fortunate."
LITERARY WORLD.--"After a perusal ofRegina, we are constrained to wonder why in the name of fortune a book so powerful has had to wait such a long time for a translator....Reginais not a book belonging to any school. It is the product of a mind strong enough to reject all neighbourly props; and it could only have been written by a realist who has not been unwise enough to depart altogether from the poetry of romance."
SPECTATOR.--"The author has handled his terrible theme with wonderful force and simplicity, and a complete avoidance of offence.... Regina is a strangely pathetic and even heroic figure, while there is an elemental force in the passions--hate, love, avarice, and cruelty--of the variousdramatis personæwhich lend them an impressiveness rarely encountered in a novel of English life."
OUTLOOK.--"It is little to the credit of our publishers that this masterpiece, which in Germany has reached a twenty-second edition, should have waited nine years for an English translator.... This translation will reveal ... what artistic realism may become. Miss Marshall is particularly happy in the rural and domestic scenes."
ST. JAMES' GAZETTE.--"A striking bit of work, full of excitements and strongly drawn characters.... Miss Beatrice Marshall, the translator, is to be congratulated on an excellent piece of work."
GLOBE.--"The story is told with remarkable skill, the interest being sustained throughout.... The novel is a striking one, and deserves careful and critical attention."
PALL MALL GAZETTE.--"A great German novel.... The tale is at a tense pitch of excitement and agitation, and it abounds with wonderful, strongly drawn characters.... There is nothing gladdening at all. But power beats in every stroke, and the Æschylean gloom and force of the story is nothing short of grand."
BOOKMAN.--"To Miss Marshall they [the readers] owe gratitude for introduction to a book of exceptional force through a very creditable translation."
SUNDAY TIMES.--"It is quite impossible to do justice to the literary and artistic merits of this great and original achievement in modern fiction."
LADY'S PICTORIAL.--"A powerful sad tragic story, ... for it is full of the passions of love and hate in their most primitive and terrible forms."
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1. The final word was obliterated. The German version provides the familiar word "for you" (dir).--Transcriber.