In point of beauty of style and literary quality a first place must be given to Mr. Hewlett's "Little Novels of Italy," a collection of short stories of Renaissance life, manners, and morals in Italy. That Mr. Hewlett has made not only a careful but a very intelligent study of this fascinating and perplexing period, so full of psychological contradictions, was shown in his "Earthwork out of Tuscany.". . . . it was a life in which morals were for the time entirely detached from intelligence and the mind absolutely divorced from the conscience. In these stories Mr. Hewlett-makes us realize in the imagination this strange, abnormal type of character, this awful indifference to the laws of life combined with the highest skill in practical affairs, this devotion to religion hand in hand with cruelty and lust, this calm beauty behind which all manner of unnatural crime was hidden. . . . —Extract from "In the Field of Fiction" (reviews), Outlook, Dec. 2 1899.
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LITTLE NOVELS OF ITALY
LITTLE NOVELS OF ITALY
BY
MAURICE HEWLETT
AUTHOR OF "THE FOREST LOVERS," "PAN AND THE YOUNG
SHEPHERD," "EARTHWORK OUT OF TUSCANY," ETC.
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
1899
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1899, By MAURICE HEWLETT.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co. – Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
To
HIS FRIEND AND
ITALY'S
MAJOR-GENERAL JOSEPH BONUS, R.E. THE AUTHOR DEDICATES HIS BOOK
