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"It is seldom that one runs across a historical novel the plot of which is so ably sustained, the characters so strongly drawn, the local color or atmosphere so satisfactory....'Count Hannibal' is the strongest and most interesting novel as yet written by this popular author." -Boston Times "Stanley J. Weyman has had hundreds of imitators since he wrote 'A Gentleman of France,' but no man has yet surpassed him. I know of no book in the whole list of popular favorites that hold one's interest more intensely or more continuously than 'Count Hannibal' does. And what an insistent, throat-griping interest it is! Such a story has zest for the most jaded palate; nay, it can hold the interest even of a book reviewer. From the first page to the last there is not a moment when one's desire to finish the book weakens. Along with the ordinary interest of curiosity there goes that of a delightful and unique love story involving no little skill in character delineation.," -Record-Herald, Chicago "A spirited, tersely interesting and most vivid story of scenes and incidents and portrayals of various characters that lived and fought and bled in the lurid days that saw the massacre of St. Bartholomew....This is Mr. Weyman's most graphic and realistic novel." -Picayune, New Orleans "Mr. Weyman has surpassed himself in 'Count Hannibal.' The scene of the story is laid chiefly in Paris, at the time of the massacre of St. Bartholomew....We are made to grasp the soul of Count Hannibal and are tacitly asked to let its envelope take care of itself....Never has Mr. Weyman achieved, in fact, a higher degree of verisimilitude. 'Count Hannibal' may leave us breathless with his despotic methods, but he is not abnormal; he is one of the Frenchman who shared the temper which made the St. Bartholomew, and he is intensely human too....how the tangle of events in which he and half a dozen others are involved is straightened out we refrain from disclosing. The reader who once takes up this book will want to find all this out for himself." -New York Tribune "A story in Mr. Weyman's best vein, with the crimson horror of St. Bartholomew as an historical setting. 'Count Hannibal' is a worthy companion of 'A Gentleman of France' and 'The Red Cockade,' and Mr. Weyman's hand is as cunning as ever in fashioning a romance which will send a thrill through the most jaded reader and keep even a reviewer from his bed." -The Bookman, London "The book is rapid, is absorbing, and the hero is a distinctly interesting character in himself, apart from his deeds of daring." -Athenaeum "Mr. Stanley Weyman's 'Count Hannibal' is fully worthy of his great reputation - the style is brilliant, easy and clear; the invention of subject and the turns of fortune in the story surprising; above all, the subtle painting of a man and a woman's heart is done with inexhaustible knowledge." -Guardian "A picturesque and vigorous romance. The narrative will be followed with breathless interest." -Times, London