'IT* X*S> "T "t *B~V ' TT T >' i ^"ir~\- /*"S ^T^ % Jf IP"* ^ 'T' FOU HORMEN ' '. CUATRD JINETES DEI .PSlS) VICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO 1 1571'6 THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Comments of the Press on The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse By Vicente Blasco Ibanez "Superlatives are boomerangs, and enthusiasms too often won't stand recording, but . . . the case of Vicente Blasco Ibafiez's "The Four Horse- men of the Apocalypse" offers an exception. Months ago this tremen- dous novel of the war was reviewed from the original on this page with many ardent superlatives. Now it appears again in the translation of Charlotte Brewster Jordan . . . and after a second reading it is possible to notice it even more enthusiastically. Certainly in it Ibanez has ful- filled Sainte Beuve's definition of what a classic should be ... it enriches the human mind and increases its treasure." Detroit Sunday News. "It gives a new view point from which to see and feel the war." New York Times Book Review leading article. "It is in every page instinct with indescribable fascination. . . . Predic- tions are rash, we know. But we venture this, that for portrayal at once of the spirit and the grim substance of war . . . our time will see no more convincing work of genius than this." The Tribune. New York. "A much more broadly-based and at the same time more deeply-moving story than any which the present reviewer has seen. Tkese have seen the war through the eyes of their own country. . . . Senor Ibanez seems to see it through eyes that are world-wide in their sweep and with a mind that is very human and pitiful in its comprehension of the suffering and the heroism. . . . 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' is so far tke distinguished novel of the war." Brooklyn Eagle, The World gives " 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' Preeminent place among recent books of fiction as ... a world romance which com- pels international recognition and would receive it even though its theme were a less gravely universal matter than the great war." " 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' is a great novel, one of the three of four outstanding novels of the war. It is rich and varied in scene, human in its characterizations, interesting throughout, and, above all, refreshingly straightforward and conclusive on the subject of the Ger- mans and their methods of warfare." The Globe, New York. "Now, for the first time, a recognized master of fiction, who comes of a nation that has so far preserved its neutrality, has chosen the war for his theme. It thus occupies a unique place in war fiction." New York Times Book Review editorial. "The splendid spirit of France in the hour of trial is the dominant note in the story, but the wild life of the cattle herder, the careless, perfumed existence of the Frenchman of fashion, the egotistic career of the implac- able German, the prophetic utterances of the philosophic Russian and a thread of romance are colorful elements in a perfect whole." Globe-Democrat, St. Louis. "Extremely vivid ... a series of war pictures unsurpassed in the litera- ture of the times." Publisher's Weekly. "Powerful and masterful ... an altogether successful book by Spam's greatest novelist." Tke Su, New York. THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (LOS CUATRO JINETES DEL APOCALIPSIS) FROM THE SPANISH OF VICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ Authorized Translation by CHARLOTTE BREWSTER JORDAN E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 681 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK 1919 Copyright, 1918, bjr E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY All Rights Reserved First printing J*ly, 1918 Stcond printing Sept. , !Qi8 Third printing Sept. . 1918 I'jurth printing Oct., 1918 F : fth printing Oct., 1918 S.'x'ti printing Oct., 1918 Snenth printing Oct., 1918 i'. : ;kth printing Oct., 1918 Mttth printing Not., 1918 Tenth printing Not., 1918 J^eventh printing .'7