UNDER THE RED ROBE.

A ROMANCE.
By STANLEY J. WEYMAN,

AUTHOR OF ‘‘A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE,” ‘‘ THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF,’’ ETC.

With 12 Full-page Illustrations by R. Caton Woodville.
12mo, Linen Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.

“Mr. Weyman is a brave writer, who imagines fine things and describes them
splendidly. There is something to interest a healthy mind on every page of his new
story. Its interest never flags, for his resource is rich, and it is, moreover, the kind of
a story that one cannot plainly see the end of from ChapterI. . . . the story reveals
a knowledge of French character and French landscape that was surely never ac-
quired at second hand. The beginning is wonderfully interesting.”—NEw York TIMEs.

“ As perfect a novel of the new school of fiction as ‘Ivanhoe’ or ‘Henry Esmond’
was of theirs. Each later story has shown a marked advance in strength and treat-
ment, and in the last Mr. Weyman . . . demonstrates that he has no superior
among living novelists. . ._. There are but two characters in the story—his art
makes all other but unnoticed shadows cast by them—and the attention is so keenly
fixed upon one or both, from the first word to the last, that we live in their thoughts
and see the drama unfolded through their eyes.’—N. Y. WorRLp.

“Tt was bold to take Richelieu and his time as a subject and thus to challenge com-
parison with Dumas’s immortal musketeers ; but the result justifies the boldness. . . .
The plot is admirably clear and strong, the diction singularly concise and telling, and
the stirring events are so managed as not to degenerate into sensationalism. Few
better novels of adventure than this have ever been written.”’—OvuTLoox, NEw York.

“ A wonderfully brilliant and thrilling romance. . . ._ Mr. Weyman has a positive
talent for concise dramatic narration. Every phrase tells, and the characters stand
out with life-like distinctness. Some of the most fascinating epochs in French history
have been splendidly illuminated by his novels, which are to be reckoned among the
notable successes of later nineteenth-century fiction. This story of ‘ Under the Red
Robe’ is in its way one of the very best things he has done. It is illustrated with
vigor and appropriateness from twelve full-page designs by R. Caton Woodville.”

—BOosTON BEACON.

“It is a skillfully drawn picture of the times, drawn in simple and transparent
English, and quivering with tense human feeling from the first word to the last. It is
not a book that can be laid down at the middle of it. The reader once caught in its
whirl can no more escape from it than a ship from the maelstrom.”

—PICAYUNE, NEW ORLEANS.

“The ‘red robe’ refers to Cardinal Richelieu, in whose day the story is laid.
The descriptions of his court, his judicial machinations and ministrations, his partial
defeat, stand out from the book as vivid as flame against a background of snow. For
the rest, the book is clever and interesting, and overflowing with heroic incident.
Stanley Weyman is an author who has apparently come to stay.’”"—CHICAGO Post.

“In this story Mr. Weyman returns to the scene of his ‘Gentleman of France,’
although his new heroes are of different mould. The book is full of adventure and
characterized -by a deeper study of character than its predecessor.”’

—WASHINGTON Post.

“Mr, Weyman has quite topped his first success. . ._. The author artfully
pursues the line on which his happy initial venture was laid. Wehave in Berault, the
ero, a more impressive Marsac; an accomplished duelist, telling the tale of his own
adventures, he first repels and finally attracts us. He is at once the tool of Richelieu,
and aman of honor, Here is a noteworthy romance, full of thrilling incident set down
by a master-hand,”—PHILADELPHIA PRESS,

 

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