THE author of "Jurgen" presents in "Beyond Life" a book that has been a puzzle to critics and a constant fascination to his admirers.

"What is it? In brief, excellent reading—shy, insinuating learning; heterodoxy infinitely gilded; facts rolled out to fragile thinness and cut into pretty figures, above all a sure and delicate sense of words, a style at once exact and undulate, a very caressing writing. In detail, much shrewd discussion of this and that, with many a flash of sound criticism...a singular and fascinating book!"

H.L. Mencken in The Smart Set

"We have in James Branch Cabell an author as great as any one now writing in English."

Burton Roscoe in The Chicago Tribune