Market-Place

"e;The Market-Place"e; throbs with the hum of life, and the wild, mad chorus of the market-place rises from its pages crescendo to a tremendous finale. To transfer the "e;city"e; to the printed page is a wonderful achievement. In "e;The Market-Place"e; his multitudinous, extravagant, corrupt, but extraordinarily fascinating "e;city"e; lives, moves and has its being. Harold Frederic must have had intimate acquaintance with its secrets, for there is not an impossible incident in his novel, and much is a transcript from reality. To many this book will seem the wildest of extravaganzas, a romance of the realms of Zenda-a stirring, exciting romance, too. To those who possess the key to the book, it is a ruthless exposure, a merciless satire. Both as satire and romance it is splendid reading.