sentences:  The blurb page postfaced to the 1898 Little, Brown and Co. edition of "Quo Vadis" includes high praise of Curtin's translations by reviewers writing in the "Chicago Mail", "Portland Advertiser", "Chicago Evening Post", "Literary World", "Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph", "Providence Journal", "Brooklyn Eagle", "Detroit Tribune", "Boston Times", "Boston Saturday Evening Gazette", "Boston Courier", "Cleveland Plain Dealer", "New York Times", "Boston Home Journal", "Review of Reviews", "Boston Herald", and several other newspapers.In 1897, during a Warsaw visit, Curtin learned from Wolff, of Gebethner and Wolff, Sienkiewicz's Polish publishers, that the Polish journalist and novelist Bolesław Prus, an acquaintance of Sienkiewicz, was as good a writer, and that none of Sienkiewicz's works excelled Prus' novel "Pharaoh".Curtin read "Pharaoh", enjoyed it and decided to translate it in the future.