“Space is wanting to do justice here to the little novel of Kaptejn Mansana, a story of passion and adventure from the last phase of Italian history. It has all the delicacy and beauty of those early stories by which Björnson attracted to himself European attention, but it surpasses these, it seems to me, in truth and vigour of delineation, in power over the more subtle and reflex emotions of the mind, and in a more perfect command over the fervent parts of style.”
Edmund Gosse, ‘Two new works by Björnson’, The Academy, London:1879
