A Maid of Venice
Author of "In the Palace of the King," "Via Crucis,"
"Saracinesca," etc.
Cloth. 12mo. $1.50
The story deals with a romantic episode that is historically true, being taken from one of the old Venetian chronicles of the latter part of the fifteenth century, during the development of the greatest splendor of the Queen of the Adriatic.
The action and interest centre in the household of a master glass-blower, a member of one of the most powerful Venetian trade corporations which had many rights and curious privileges, and are picturesquely brought out.
But aside from its power as a story and its vivid picture of domestic life in the Middle Ages, the book shares the peculiar charm of "Marzio's Crucifix," "A Roman Singer," and other of Mr. Crawford's descriptions of artists and their surroundings, which have always been singularly fortunate, possibly because of special sympathies dating from his boyhood in Rome, where his father was the well-known sculptor, Thomas Crawford.
Those who have read "the best spy story of the Civil War"—described by the Boston Herald as: "Quite the most extraordinary and remarkable of recent stories of personal adventure in warfare . . . a story of such vividness and power that once you have gotten immersed in it, you want to shut out the rest of the world completely until you have finished it," will not be surprised to find in the new novel a story of desperate personal adventure, political plot and counterplot, villany, and of a devoted woman's love, all interwoven with the Virginia Campaigns of Grant and Lee, and detailed with rare historical accuracy.
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