Days near Paris . and of a wilder aspect. On one side wasgloomy shadow, a chaos of trees planted onthe slope, twisted and irregular, amongstwhich the splashing of a torrent was audible:on the right an immense rock overhung thepath, bristling with branches which sprungfrom the crevices in its sides. They were not laughing in the landau now : F 2. .%v>J> Press Notices of La Belle Nivernaise. It is charmingly and gracefully wrought out, with a freshness of feel-ing that is more common among French than English writers, and amingled pathos and heartiness that are delightful. The illustration
Days near Paris . and of a wilder aspect. On one side wasgloomy shadow, a chaos of trees planted onthe slope, twisted and irregular, amongstwhich the splashing of a torrent was audible:on the right an immense rock overhung thepath, bristling with branches which sprungfrom the crevices in its sides. They were not laughing in the landau now : F 2. .%v>J> Press Notices of La Belle Nivernaise. It is charmingly and gracefully wrought out, with a freshness of feel-ing that is more common among French than English writers, and amingled pathos and heartiness that are delightful. The illustrations inthese little stories are such as are possible only with French pencils andFrench printing.—R. H. Stoddard in N. Y. Mail and Express. In this volume there are the finer beauties of Daudets work, thehumanity, the sympatliy, the pathos, which have caused comparison withDickens, even more than his humor has.—Springfield Republican. ... Daudets sweet and brilliant short story, La Belle Niver-naise, a lovely bit of real life in the authors most delicate vein . .worthy the most refined and the most imaginative of living Frenchmasters of fiction.—Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston. Simple idyllic and absolutely unaffacted. If one were not absorbedby the charm of the style, he would wonder how the interest could beheld by such a slight
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