John Hossack

“ Catchpenny means inferior, showy, gotten up to attract and fool buyers. I can assure you this stricture does not apply to "The Pilgim's Shell." As your reviewer showed, the purpose of the translator and publishers is to help along the labor movement by furnishing a lesson from the past to enlighten the movement of to-day.
Besides being a well-made book, its translator, Daniel De Leon, is not only thoroughly conversant with the French language, but is himself an authority on the industrial and social development of the race, a phase of which the book treats. ”

“ The interesting discussion on "The Pilgrim's Shell" now going on in The Book Review seems to furnish conclusive evidence that Eugene Sue's great masterpiece "The Mysteries of the People," of which "The Pilgrim's Shell" is one of the gems, is not generally known to English-speaking readers, Mr. ”