QUINTUS CLAUDIUS 



A ROMANCE OF IMPERIAL ROME 



BY 



From the German by CLARA BELL 



Containing nearly 600 Historical Notes and References. 



" We owe to Eckstein the brilliant romance of ' Quintus Claudius,* 

 which Clara Bell has done well to translate for us, for it is worthy of 

 place beside the Emperor of Ebers and the Aspasia of Hamerling. It 

 is a story of Rome in the reign of Domitian, and the most noted char- 

 acters of the time figure in its pages, which are a series of picturesque 

 descriptions of Roman life and manners in the imperial city, and in 

 those luxurious retreats at Baiae and elsewhere to which the wealthy 

 Romans used to retreat from the heats of summer. It is full of stirring 

 scenes in the streets, in the palaces, in the temples, and in the amphi- 

 theatre, and the actors therein represent every phase of Roman char- 

 acter, from the treacherous and cowardly Domitian and the vile 

 Domitia down to tlie secret gatherings of the new sect and their exit 

 from life in the blood-soaked sands of the arena, where they were 

 torn in pieces by the beasts of the desert. The life and the manners 

 of all classes at this period were never painted with a bolder pencil 

 than by Eckstein in this masterly romance, which displays as much 

 scholarship as invendon. — Mail and Express, N. Y., Dec. i, 1882. 



"A neio Rojnance of Ancient Times! The success of Ernst Eck- 

 stein's new novel, ' Quintus Claudius,' which recently appeared in 

 Vienna, may fairly be called phenomenal, critics and the public unite 

 in praising the work." — Grazer Morgenpost, 



" ' Quintus Claudius ' is a finished work of art, capable of bearing 

 any analysis, a literary production teeming with instruction and inter- 

 est, full of plastic forms, and rich in the most dramatic changes of 

 mood." — Pester Lloyd. 



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