(NORWEGIAN)

(NOBEL PRIZE, 1920)

GROWTH OF THE SOIL

Translated by W. WORSTER, M.A.

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“‘Growth of the Soil’ is a beautiful work of genius ... a triumphant exhibition of what can be done with an objective method by a proved master.”—Westminster Gazette.

“An absorbing story told with a marvellous simplicity.”

Times Literary Supplement.

“A picture of infinite tenderness and humanity.”—Daily Telegraph.

“Not for a long time have I been held fascinated by the development of a single human being in fiction as I am with this man Isak.”

Clement Shorter in The Sphere.

“Knut Hamsun ... is one of the creators, one of the Prometheans who have stolen fire from heaven. He has the godlike qualities that belong to the very great, the completest omniscience about human nature.”

Rebecca West in The New Statesman.

“... indescribably calm and tremendous ... so entirely human, that we cannot skip one line ... the critical faculty abdicates and there is nothing left but words of praise ... whatever else Knut Hamsun may have written should be translated with the least possible delay.”—Henry Baerlein in the Christmas number of The Bookman.

“New novels of lasting value have been very rare of late. Here, at least, is one.”—Review of Reviews.

PAN

Crown 8vo, cloth A Love Story 7s. 6d. net

“Exquisite ... the more one reads the book the more one realises its witchery. It is one of the few pieces of contemporary fiction which is worthy of a place in the most select library.”—Country Life.

“‘Pan’ will serve to increase the warmth of welcome which ‘Growth of the Soil’ has already won.... The introduction of a new note into literature ... an extraordinary fascination.”

Daily Telegraph.

“A great novel ... a merciless piece of self-revelation ... a book that has few equals in any literature.”—Evening Standard.

“Simple and powerful ... strong and absorbing in its insight into the vital springs of human passion.”—Scotsman.

“This beautiful work.”—Glasgow Herald.

“A love story of a most unusual type, with a rare, wistful charm ... a book which no reader should miss.”—Weekly Dispatch.

“Is marked by flashes of rare poetic beauty ... a wonderful bit of literary craftsmanship.”—Aberdeen Free Press.

Egholm and his God

By JOHANNES BUCHHOLTZ (Danish)

Translated by W. WORSTER, M.A.

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Buchholtz is one of the most original of modern Danish writers. His characters are creations of great imaginative power and human interest; he brings before us a gallery of varied personages; quaint and yet true to life as those of Dickens. And he shows a great fertility of invention in contriving for them the most amazing situations.

The story of Egholm, the fantastic enthusiast and inventor, his conflict with the remarkable “Brotherhood” in one little town, and his extraordinary achievements and failures in another, is one of the author’s best, rich in humour and full of unexpected developments.

The book is one that should appeal to every class of reader.

The Promised Isle

By LAURIDS BRUUN (Danish)

Translated by DAVID PRITCHARD

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In this book, Laurids Bruun draws once more upon the papers of his imaginary friend “Van Zanten,” whose “Happy Days” on Pelli Island formed the output of the first of this series.

“The Promised Isle,” however, is in a somewhat different vein, describing, with a touch of delicate satire, the adventures, and more especially the misadventures, of a little party of enthusiasts who turn from artificial society to seek true happiness and their respective ideals on an uninhabited island in the South Seas. The manner in which each of the friends faces the self-imposed Crusoe-life, the expedients to which they severally have recourse, the unexpected addition to their number, and its effect, make a most entertaining and amusing story.

The Story of John Southern

By W. WILLIAMSSON

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An English love story by a new writer, telling of quiet lives in a little country town. The characters are chosen from that great class of office workers whose lives are for the most part grey and uneventful, yet the author has succeeded in investing them and their surroundings with individuality and charm.

Into the Dark

By BARBRA RING (Norwegian)

Translated by W. EMMÉ

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A woman’s confession. The story of a girl whose ignorance of vital things in life leads her first into a marriage that proves a martyrdom, and then to a desperate escape. The author shows with great force and earnestness the stages whereby men and women are lured along the dangerous by-paths that lead “Into the Dark.”

Books by GUNNAR GUNNARSSON

(Iceland)

GUEST THE ONE-EYED

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“A romance of intense interest ... there are some chapters so amazingly and arrestively fine that they stand out as absolutely masterly.”—Evening News.

“Grandeur and dignity ... the spirit of romance ... a noble as well as a notable book.”—Aberdeen Free Press.

“Iceland, as a modern wonderland of mystery and romance, has never been more attractively presented than in this beautiful work.”

Glasgow Herald.

“Full of dramatic force.”—Weekly Dispatch.

“One of the finest romances we have had for some time.”

Newcastle Chronicle.

“Simply told, with a nobility of conception and a clarity of expression that are beyond praise.”—Irish Times.

THE SWORN BROTHERS

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“He writes as one who inherits the old tradition of Viking exploits, love and blood feuds, and the conflicts between the followers of Odin and of Christ.”—Times Literary Supplement.

“The descriptions of ancient Norway are marked by real poetic feeling, which even the translation into another tongue does not seem to mar, and the story of the young men’s marauding expeditions on the coasts of Britain has the thrill of real romance.”—Aberdeen Free Press.

“A charming story, full of romance.... A well-written book, which young and old will read with interest.”—Midland Counties Express.

“The success of this Scandinavian author’s evocation of a social order strangely remote from our own is remarkable.”

Westminster Gazette.

“A fine, strong, virile story of the north, full of colour and life ... should be a classic of its kind in this country before many months have gone.”—Court Journal.

THE SONG OF
THE BLOOD-RED FLOWER

By JOHANNES LINNANKOSKI (Finnish)

Translated by W. WORSTER, M.A.

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“The full-blooded passion of virile youth.... The author shows his skill and the strength of his abrupt yet lyrical style by the cleverness with which he creates interest and some admiration in the libertine.... This notable book.”—Liverpool Courier.

“A piece of wonderful prose.”—Evening News.

“A great Scandinavian story.”—Public Opinion.

“Uncommonly fresh and powerful.”—Scotsman.

“The dramatic scenes and episodes glow with vigorous beauty.”

Glasgow Herald.

“Clothed in an atmosphere of graceful phantasy, and told with delicate charm ... has no Rabelaisian flavouring about it.”—Evening Standard.

“This is a book of much beauty. Never, in its most intimate passages, does it overstep the borders of delicacy. There is nothing to raise a nasty taste in one’s mouth.... The tale is told with real beauty and poetic feeling, and the translation is a triumph.”

Badminton Magazine.

JENNY

By SIGRID UNDSET (Norwegian)

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“This is another of the remarkable novels which are being published by the great Copenhagen house of Gyldendal.”—Graphic.

“Messrs. Gyldendal deserve our thanks for bringing before the English-reading world an author of more than average merit.... The writer has given us a brilliant character-study in Jenny.... The book is extraordinarily human.”—Nottingham Journal.

“If this book is representative of modern Norwegian feminine fiction it reveals a high standard, and one which is quite on a level with the best English fiction of the day—in fact, we cannot think of an English book of this type which is quite as good.”—Liverpool Courier.

“The central figure, Jenny ... is finely imagined.... The story is interesting as a study in temperament.”—Scotsman.

“One of the most striking studies in feminine psychology that has appeared of late.”—Englishwoman.

THE OUTCAST

By SELMA LAGERLÖF (Swedish; NOBEL PRIZE, 1909)

Translated by W. WORSTER, M.A.

Crown 8vo Cloth 8s. 6d. net

“A beautiful conception ... a remarkable novel ... the work of one who is an artist in fibre and a born teller of stories.”

Daily Telegraph.

“The term ‘a powerful novel’ is often glibly used, but in the case of ‘The Outcast’ it is profoundly true.”—Court Journal.

“Written with real art and rare emotional sincerity.”

Manchester Guardian.

VAN ZANTEN’S
HAPPY DAYS

By LAURIDS BRUUN (Danish)

Translated by DAVID PRITCHARD

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“A most remarkable book ... a very charming love story, well worth reading, and of quite an unusual kind.”—Court Journal.

“A charming love story.”—Scotsman.

“An extremely frank piece of self-revelation ... vivid and picturesque ... a romance related with insight and charm.”

Liverpool Courier.

“Realistic freshness ... frank and fascinating.”

Southport Guardian.

“Full of memorable pictures and breathes a comfortable atmosphere of blue seas and skies, coral reefs and fertile nature.”

Egyptian Gazette.

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY—I
The Soul-life of a Child in its First Four Years

By VILHELM RASMUSSEN (Danish)

Translated by G. G. Berry

With a Preface by Prof. Harald Hoffding

Crown 8vo Cloth 3s. 6d. net

“An excellent translation of an admirable Danish book which bids fair to become a classic.”—Glasgow Herald.

“An interesting study.”—Times Educational Supplement.

“The most remarkable book of its kind that has been published in this country for many years.”—Court Journal.

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY—II
The Kindergarten Child

By VILHELM RASMUSSEN (Danish)

Translated by David Pritchard

Crown 8vo Cloth 5s. net

This, the second volume of the series, deals with the development of the child from the age of 3-4 years until completion of its sixth or seventh year. Following the same lines as in the previous work, the author gives, from actual experience and observation as parent and teacher, a clear and thorough presentment of the child’s physical and mental growth, its conception of the world around, its mode of expression, feelings and will, and its moral and ethical ideas. The book with its wealth of examples direct from actual life, will appeal to all who care for children.

MERLIN’S ISLE

A Study of Rudyard Kipling’s England

By W. WORSTER

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“Packed from cover to cover with good criticism and good sense ... one of the best essays in criticism yet devoted to Mr. Kipling’s work.”

Daily Telegraph.

“The best study of English traits which has yet appeared in print.”

Schoolmaster.

“A charming analysis ... in many ways the best book on Kipling.”

Court Journal.

“... this live and charming little book.”—Graphic.

“A charming and understanding study of Rudyard Kipling’s England.”

Public Opinion.

“It lays stress on the ethical value of Mr. Kipling’s work, and expounds it with ungrudging admiration and sympathy.”—Scotsman.