"Signor Fogazzaro is at the present moment undoubtedly the greatest of Italian novelists. His nobility of feeling, his wide sympathy, his kindliness and breezy humor entitle him to a high place among writers of fiction."—

A picture of "the little ancient world" of Vasolda in the troubled period of 1848–49, when the "spirit of patriotism mourned its fiercest." The book is a wonderful portrayal of the social life of the period.

An impassioned love story involving faithful pictures of the life of the Italian world of fashion and introducing the character that becomes the central figure of The Saint.

"An exceptional, remarkable, profoundly interesting work. It is eloquent with intense earnestness, with a deep-rooted sense of a duty to perform, a fervent message to deliver. You lay it aside with an abiding sense of having read something eminently worth while, something very genuine and sincere."—The Bookman.

In form, it is almost exactly like a novel with frequent conversations, and going, in minor matters at least, far beyond the record of history. The narrative opens with Petruccio as a child in the home of his parents, who belong to the minor nobility of the Abruzzi. It follows his career at Salerno, where he attended the University as a lonely figure making few friends. Afterwards he became a hermit and the story tells how disciples gathered round him, beginning with two worldly young men who had known him at Salerno. The Order of the Celestines thus founded grew in numbers and importance through fifty quiet years, when the call to the Papacy came. From this point, Mr. Ayscough's chronicle moves swiftly and dramatically—the poor simple old man dragged weeping from his hermit's cave and borne to the triumph from which he shrank in horror,—the miserable weeks in Rome, touching examples of his simplicity and guilelessness. Then the peace which came with the renunciation, and his last days passed quite happily as a captive in a prison cell.

A story of the present day, containing vivid word pictures of Southern Italian and Sicilian life, written by a distinguished Catholic. The passionate peoples of the South, tempered by the sweet influences of religion, despite science and modernity, are depicted with great fidelity. It is safe to say that no truer account of Convent life has ever been printed.

Frontispiece by H. M. Brock.

Listed as one of the six best selling novels in England.

"Vividly and vigorously recounted, the dialogue is brisk and ingenious, the plot well contrived, and action swift and skilfully managed."—N. Y. Sun. Crown 8vo. $1.50

Author of "The Last Word," "Return," "Huldah," etc. With Six Full-Page Illustrations in Color by George Wright.

"A book that combines historical value with so good a story is a book to be praised."—N. Y. Times.

"An admirable tale."—The Outlook. Crown 8vo. $1.50

Author of "The Chase of an Heiress," "The Man of the Family," etc. With Frontispiece in Colors by John Edwin Jackson.

"A dramatic and splendid piece of fiction, the love element is delicately treated, while it sparkles with wit and is captivating in style."—Buffalo Courier. Crown 8vo. $1.50

"It has warmth and color, and that spiritual exaltation of insight into the heart of humanity which is one of the attributes of genius. In conception and in execution Fraternity must be justly termed a great novel."—N. Y. Times.

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"By the power of his conceptions John Galsworthy must be recognized as a distinctive and important figure among the younger English novelists. Still in his thirties, he is nevertheless a master."—Chicago Evening Post.

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"Spacious in scope, splendid in vigor and coloring, and rich in human feeling and sentiment ... the whole romance thrills and glows with a real and splendid effect of life, and I commend it heartily."—Dundee Advertiser.

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"One of the most striking novels of the year."—British
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The first of these romances is an impassioned story of lovers struggling to break the barriers of aristocratic prejudice that oppose their marriage. It is also a story of patriotism—of the freeing of Italy from the Austrian yoke.

In The Sinner, the second book of this Trilogy, we read the dramatic story of Piero Maironi, the son of the hero of The Patriot, and of his love for the beautiful Jeanne Dessalle,—a story that presents a vivid picture of the Italian world of rank and fashion, and involves, too, a study of political and ecclesiastical life.

In The Saint, the concluding novel in the series, the hero of The Sinner and the lover of Jeanne Dessalle appears as a penitent full of religious zeal that finds a double outlet—in asceticism and works of mercy and in an attempt to reform the Church of Rome from within.