George Sand's Works in English.
MAUPRAT.
ANTONIA.
THE BAGPIPERS.
MONSIEUR SYLVESTRE.
THE SNOW MAN.
NANON.
THE MILLER OF ANGIBAULT.
As to "Mauprat," if there were any doubts as to George Sand's power, it would forever set them at rest.—Harper's Monthly.
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Little Classics, by George Sand.
FADETTE.
FRANCOIS THE WAIF.
THE DEVIL'S POOL.
THE MASTER MOSAIC WORKERS.
Translated by Jane Minot Sedgwick, Ellery Sedgwick, and Charlotte C. Johnston. With etched frontispieces by Abot and an etched portrait of Titian.
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Studies of rustic life, of which "La Petite Fadette," "François le Champi," and "La Mare au Diable" are the chief, and which some of her admirers regard as her greatest works.—George Saintsbury, in Chambers' Cyclopædia.
No description is needed of works so well known as "La Petite Fadette," "La Mare au Diable," and "François le Champi." Like Wordsworth, with the inward eye she sees into the life of things.—Encyclopædia Britannica.
"The Master Mosaic Workers" is one of the most delightful of historical novels, and gives a vivid picture of the life in Venice at the time when Titian, Tintoretto, and Giorgione were in their zenith, and when the famous mosaics which still adorn St. Mark's were being made.—Literary World.
George Sand's Convent Life.
Translated from "L'Histoire de ma Vie" by Maria Ellery McKaye.
These brief chapters from a fragmentary autobiography of the famous French author have been translated from the published memoirs, and are much more familiar in France than here. They relate to George Sand's girlhood, and cover only a few years, and yet are written with that vivid and picturesque charm peculiar to all her writings. They show us, with much force and interest, the kind of life which young girls led in convents seventy years ago.—N. Y. Times.
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The New Library Molière.
TRANSLATED BY KATHARINE PRESCOTT WORMELEY.
Translator of Balzac's Novels.
With Preface to Molière's Works by Honoré de Balzac, Criticisms on the Author by Sainte-Beuve, Portraits by Coypel and Mignard, and decorative Titlepages.
Arrangement of the Plays.
Vol. I. The Misanthrope; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Vol. II. Tartuffe; Les Précieuses Ridicules; George Dandin.
Vol. III. Les Femmes Savantes; Le Malade Imaginaire.
Vol. IV. L'Avare; Don Juan; Les Fâcheux.
Vol. V. L'École des Femmes; L'École des Maris; Monsieur
de Pourceaugnac.
Vol. VI. L'Étourdi; Le Mariage Forcé; Le Médecin Malgré
Lui; La Critique de l'École des Femmes.
All are familiar with Miss Wormeley's admirable English version of Balzac; and we know of no greater praise in behalf of her recent translation of Molière than to say it betrays the same knowledge, skill, and insight that has made her name famous among the lovers of high literature. While it is undoubtedly true that the student of Molière would turn by preference to the original, it is equally true that those who cannot read his works in their native form are now indebted to Miss Wormeley for an appreciation of Sainte-Beuve's declaration "that to love Molière is to love uprightness and health of mind, in others as well as in ourselves." She did a splendid service for two literatures by her admirable English rendering of the author whom many regard as France's first novelist, and now she continues by an equally excellent translation of the works of the genius to whom is conceded with still greater unanimity the rank of France's first dramatist. And by a happy thought Miss Wormeley avails herself, for the presentation of Molière to American readers, of the eloquent tribute which Balzac paid to him in his preface to his own edition of Molière, issued in his younger days. The translator also calls attention to the singular parallel afforded in the lives of the two writers. These "fathers of the 'Comedy of Human Life' and of realism," she says, "died at the same age (fifty-one); the fame of both was of little more than fifteen years' duration in their lifetime; both died of the toil to which their genius impelled them; and both are going down with ever-brightening lustre to posterity."—Boston Budget.
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PASTELS OF MEN.
By PAUL BOURGET.
TRANSLATED BY KATHARINE P. WORMELEY,
Translator of Balzac's Novels.
First Series
A Saint.
M. Legrimaudet.
Two Little Boys:
1. M. Veples' Brother; 2. Marcel.
Second Series
Maurice Olivier.
A Gambler.
Another Gambler.
Jacques Molan.
A Lowly One.
Corsèques.
The title suggests the character of the stories, which are, for the most part, miniature studies of men and women, done with exquisite grace and with no little power. M. Bourget is just now one of the foremost figures among contemporary French writers. He is a critic as well as a novelist.—Christian Union.
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A SAINT. By Paul Bourget.
From the "Pastels of Men." Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. With 12 illustrations by Paul Chabas.
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The "saint" is an old monk who lives with only two others in one of those old monasteries in Italy which, since the government decree, have gradually fallen into disuse. It is a beautiful little story, in which we are taught the lesson of Christ's manner of dealing with those who are tempted and go astray, and are brought back into the right path.—Boston Times.
M. Bourget is a master of literary art; his portraits are drawn with a wonderful distinctness, and with a realism that is as true to the possibilities of human nature as it is fascinating.—Boston Home Journal.
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The Romances of Victor Hugo.
LIBRARY EDITION.
Including important passages and chapters hitherto omitted.
With 28 Portraits and Plates.
LIST OF STORIES.
Les Misérables. 5 vols.
Notre Dame. 2 vols.
Ninety-Three, 1 vol.
The Man who Laughs. 2 vols.
Toilers of the Sea. 2 vols.
Hans of Iceland, 1 vol.
Bug-Jargal; Claude Gueux; The Last Day of a Condemned, 1 vol.
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A model edition for use and convenience.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
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BRICHANTEAU, Actor.
Translated from the French of
JULES CLARETIE, Manager of the Comédie Française
With Preface by Francisque Sarcey.
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M. Jules Claretie has had a wide acquaintance with actors. He has had an opportunity of studying them still more closely since he has been the manager of the Comédie Française. Brichanteau is charming because he is always treading the boards, because he believes in good faith that his life is a drama, in which he plays the principal part. The work is written with a sprightly and witty pen.—Francisque Sarcey.
The translation has preserved the sprightly wit and grace of the original, in which all the shades of character, frequently delicate and elusive, are brought out by refined turns of expression.—Philadelphia Press.
As a whole, the book is a delightful and beautiful work of art. The man of whom Claretie writes becomes a living character to us, and we love him as we would such a man in real life.—Cincinnati Tribune.
He is more than a sketch; he is a Meissonier portrait, painted with all that accuracy of detail for which Meissonier was famous.—Boston Literary World.
One of the most pathetically humorous books ever written, and it should become a classic.—St. Louis Mirror.
That there is a lovable, generous, elevated, human and humane picturesqueness to the caricatured strolling player is shown with such admirable truth by Claretie, that his "Brichanteau" deserves permanency among desirable books.—Washington Times.
You love Brichanteau and take him to your heart, for he is an honest fellow, who fights gallantly and merrily with his bad luck.—New York Times.
A lively, amusing, intensely Gallic series of studies of stage life.—The Outlook.
A delicious character, this Brichanteau.—Detroit Free Press.
The author is so witty and the ridiculous side of his hero is so well described that the book is a treat—restful and refreshing.
The delicious absurdity of this "optimist failure," "Brichanteau Actor," reminds one of Don Quixote, while his consummate good nature is almost equal to Sir Roger de Coverley's. The clever French author has made his actor tell for the most part his own story, and in a natural, easy manner—the perfection of polished French style.—Chicago Farm, Field, and Fireside.
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Alphonse Daudet in English.
New Uniform Edition of the Novels, Romances, and Memoirs of Alphonse Daudet, the greatest French Writer since Victor Hugo. Newly Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Translator of Balzac's Novels; Jane Minot Sedgwick, Translator of George Sand; Charles de Kay, and others.
Printed from large clear type, with Frontispieces. Twenty volumes. 12mo. Cloth, gilt top. $1.50 per volume.
Arrangement of the volumes.
Alphonse Daudet. By Léon Daudet. To which is added
"My Brother and Myself," by Ernest Daudet 1 vol.
Fromont and Risler 1 vol.
The Nabob 2 vols.
Kings in Exile 1 vol.
Numa Roumestan 1 vol.
The Little Parish and Robert Helmont 1 vol.
Little What's His Name 1 vol.
Tartarin of Tarascon and Tartarin on the Alps 1 vol.
Port Tarascon and La Belle Nivernaise 1 vol.
Thirty Years in Paris, etc. 1 vol.
The Immortal, etc 1 vol.
Souvenirs of a Man of Letters and Artists' Wives 1 vol.
The Evangelist and Rose and Ninette 1 vol.
Jack 2 vols.
Monday Tales 1 vol.
Letters from My Mill, etc 1 vol.
Sappho 1 vol.
The Head of the Family 1 vol.
Of the brilliant group of men who have made contemporaneous French literature, of that coterie toward which the eyes of all the reading world have been turned with admiration and interest during the last half a century, Daudet was the greatest. He was the most universal, the most original, the most human.—From an Article in The Book Buyer, by L. Van Vorst.
Has, perhaps, transferred bodily into his writings more actual events, related in the newspapers, in the court-house, or in society, than any other writer of the present age. Of some of his novels one hardly dare say that they are works of fiction; their characters are men and women of our time; they do in the book almost exactly what they had done in real life.—Prof. Adolph Cohn, in The Bookman.
He is a novelist to his finger-tips. No one has such grace, such lightness and brilliancy of execution.—Henry James, in The Century.
The slightest pages from his pen will preserve the vibration of his soul so long as our tongue exists imperishable. He is the author of twenty masterpieces.—Émile Zola.