The Grey Wig (collection)/End matter
"The book is intended as a study, through typical figures, of a race whose persistence is the most remarkable fact in the history of the world, the faith and morals of which it has so largely moulded."—From the Author's Preface.
"This famous novel deals with the life of the Jews who swarm in the East End of London. It is a wonderful book that portrays them and reports their lives, straitened by so narrow a horizon."—Boston Courier.
"Others have written about the Jew—George Eliot, for example—but no such book as this ever has appeared. As a social study it is a phenomenal work."—Congregationalism
"The story is one of the very best which will be offered to readers."—Albany Times-Union.
"Wonderfully realistic novel—the book is sure to become a classic."—Boston Home Journal.
"Intensely interesting and picturesque."—Minneapolis Journal.
"It has been recognized as a masterpiece as a novel, but it is more. It gives a picture of Jewish life that is exceedingly valuable and interesting, as well as comparatively unknown."—Providence News.
"Every line he writes shows an intellectual force that is rare, even in the gifted army of clever writers."—Kansas City Star.
"Fascinating and cleverly executed."—Worcester Spy.
"In portrayal and development of character he is unimpeachably accurate. Not one of the personages in his book but is alive from the moment of entrance to the moment of exit."—Boston Commonwealth.
"His power of description is simply wonderful as displayed in this book, and one feels on closing that he has actually visited the places described."—Detroit Free Press.
GROTESQUES AND FANTASIES.
By I. ZANGWILL,
Author of "Children of the Ghetto" "Merely Mary Ann" etc.
Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth. $1.50.
"Mr. Zangwill has disclosed to us an inviting field never before exploited in fiction, and the sketches he has printed are in a kindly and humorous vein, true to life, and highly entertaining."—Table Talk.
"The audacity of this 'King of Schnorrers' is something unequalled, and it is enhanced by the pithy and original style in which the author writes."—Boston Budget.
"There are sixteen stories in the book, and not one of them but is as improbable, as bright and glancing in its satire and fun, as gravely comic and comically grave, as any man, in or out of his senses, could wish. All the stories of the volume abound in odd and ludicrous situations, and more than justify the high expectations raised of this humorous story-teller by his first success in humorous fiction."—Chicago Graphic.
"Mr. Zangwill is the wittiest of modern Englishmen. Not only has he a style, flexible, graceful, and as light as the flight of a sea-bird, but he has ideas, and the art of sketching delicious situations in an original and charming way. The sin of obviousness he cannot be accused of, nor the greater crime of repetition. Like the great German (Heine), he conceals under the rose-leaves of his idyllic verse, the sharp thorns of ironic allusion. There is ever lurking under his sentiment a sarcasm—delicate as a petal, but as perceptible as the pea to the princess through all the sixteen mattresses. Not the unconventionally of the dramatis personæ, nor the strange locale in which they move, explains fully the fascination of 'The King of Schnorrers.' Manasseh de Costa is a creation, a delightfully humorous figure whose magnificent pretension and impertinent wit give him a place in the gallery of celebrated characters. Without question the story is a tour de force, a masterpiece of its kind, with more wit, humor, and imagination, and dexterity in it than one finds in the collected writings of Mark Twain, Bill Nye, Jerome, and all the rest of the sad band of professional fun-makers with whom the critics have had the audacity of classing Mr. Zangwill."—San Francisco Wave.
GHETTO TRAGEDIES
By I. ZANGWILL
With a Photogravure Frontispiece after a Picture by
LOUIS LOEB
12mo. Cloth. $1.50
Mr. Zangwill's name has now become known wherever the English language is spoken, and he has become the acknowledged interpreter of the romance and reality of the Hebrew race, not only as represented in the London ghetto, but in the Jewish quarters of various cities on the continent and in America.
As novelist, essayist, and dramatist he has achieved distinct successes, but his short stories remain perhaps the most noteworthy of his productions, containing so much of human interest, combined with most interesting sketches of Jewish character.
His stories convey a sense of vast resource, and their great variety lends additional vigor. In one we have extreme realism, in another poetic imagery at its best, perhaps the two artfully combined as in so many where into the ghetto of to-day is introduced the mysticism of the Jewish faith.
This collection of short stories represents a very wide range in point of time, covering, as it does, examples of the author's wonderful art, written at various times during the past ten years.
They have remarkable tragic force, but the sombreness is to a great extent dispelled by the subtle humor which has ever distinguished the author's work.
"This volume, to our thinking, contains the cream of his work."—The Bookman.
"The talent of telling a story in a fascinating way, the power of using language in its most effective and graphic manner... are traits Zangwill possesses to a wonderful degree, and evidences of them mark every page of this new work from his facile pen."—The American Hebrew.
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