_DAILY GRAPHIC_.--"_Regina_ belongs to that category in which great novels rank."
_ACADEMY_.--"A powerful and very deliberate tragedy.... Miss Beatrice Marshall is the translator, and, on the whole, Herr Sudermann may consider himself fortunate."
_LITERARY WORLD_.--"After a perusal of _Regina_, we are constrained to wonder why in the name of fortune a book so powerful has had to wait such a long time for a translator.... _Regina_ is not a book belonging to any school. It is the product of a mind strong enough to reject all neighbourly props; and it could only have been written by a realist who has not been unwise enough to depart altogether from the poetry of romance."
_SPECTATOR_.--"The author has handled his terrible theme with wonderful force and simplicity, and a complete avoidance of offence.... Regina is a strangely pathetic and even heroic figure, while there is an elemental force in the pa.s.sions--hate, love, avarice, and cruelty--of the various _dramatis personae_ which lend them an impressiveness rarely encountered in a novel of English life."
_OUTLOOK_.--"It is little to the credit of our publishers that this masterpiece, which in Germany has reached a twenty-second edition, should have waited nine years for an English translator.... This translation will reveal ... what artistic realism may become. Miss Marshall is particularly happy in the rural and domestic scenes."
_ST. JAMES" GAZETTE_.--"A striking bit of work, full of excitements and strongly drawn characters.... Miss Beatrice Marshall, the translator, is to be congratulated on an excellent piece of work."
_GLOBE_.--"The story is told with remarkable skill, the interest being sustained throughout.... The novel is a striking one, and deserves careful and critical attention."
_PALL MALL GAZETTE_.--"A great German novel.... The tale is at a tense pitch of excitement and agitation, and it abounds with wonderful, strongly drawn characters.... There is nothing gladdening at all. But power beats in every stroke, and the aeschylean gloom and force of the story is nothing short of grand."
_BOOKMAN_.--"To Miss Marshall they [the readers] owe grat.i.tude for introduction to a book of exceptional force through a very creditable translation."
_SUNDAY TIMES_.--"It is quite impossible to do justice to the literary and artistic merits of this great and original achievement in modern fiction."
_LADY"S PICTORIAL_.--"A powerful sad tragic story, ... for it is full of the pa.s.sions of love and hate in their most primitive and terrible forms."