(_The Odd Number Series._) The great forests of cotton-wood, palms, and other tropical plants, the almost impassable rivers, the rich flowers which seem to spread their fragrance over every page, make a fascinating background to a story of tender sentiment .-- _Boston Journal._ Jorge Isaacs has given such a picture of home life, and of pure, almost ideal love in a Spanish American home, as to prove him a poetical genius and certainly a most charming romancer....

Simple and unaffected in style, yet with a sublime pathos, it is without doubt worthy to be ranked with "Paul and Virginia" among the classics .-- _Presbyterian Banner_, Pittsburg.
A treasure in romance which should at once take a well-deserved place in the front rank of modern fiction .-- _North American_, Phila.
It bears all the evidence of truthful portrayal of the Spanish American home, and the story is told so pleasingly and ingeniously as to make the chapters delightful .-- _Chicago Inter-Ocean._ Distinguished by a freshness and simplicity which recall some of the French sentimental novelists of the eighteenth century, and especially Bernardin St.Pierre .-- _N.Y.

Tribune._ No novel reader will fail to read this beautiful story, which should find its way wherever the beautiful and the pure in literature are respected and loved .-- _Catholic Review_, N.Y.
The charm of the book is its simplicity and purity....

The author is a literary artist; his style is clear and winning, his thought stimulating, his purpose healthful.

The story of love is told with much sweetness and pathos, while the descriptive passages display singular strength and sympathy for nature .-- _Jewish Messenger_, N.Y.
"Maria" is read and admired through all of South America.