Days near Paris . isodes that delight theiinagination and kindle the heart. His phenomenal powers invest thescenes with a living interest luhich no description devoid of the hzniianele77tent can rival, What v\^as it that so fascinated the young student, as he stood by theriver shore ? What book so delighted him, and blinded him to all the rest ofthe world ? Do you suppose it was Livy, or the Greek grammar ? No; itwas a Novel; it was the prisoner of the Chateau dlf cutting himself out ofthe sack, and swimming to the island of Monte Cristo. O Dumas ! O thoubrave, kind, gallant old Alexandre ! I
Days near Paris . isodes that delight theiinagination and kindle the heart. His phenomenal powers invest thescenes with a living interest luhich no description devoid of the hzniianele77tent can rival, What v\^as it that so fascinated the young student, as he stood by theriver shore ? What book so delighted him, and blinded him to all the rest ofthe world ? Do you suppose it was Livy, or the Greek grammar ? No; itwas a Novel; it was the prisoner of the Chateau dlf cutting himself out ofthe sack, and swimming to the island of Monte Cristo. O Dumas ! O thoubrave, kind, gallant old Alexandre ! I hereby ofiEer thee homage, and givethee thanks for many pleasant hours. I have read thee (being sick in bed)for thirteen hours of a happy day, and had the ladies of the house fightingfor the volumes.—Thackeray. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, NEW YORK. ALPHONSE DAUDETTartarin of Tarascon TARTARIN ON THE JIlPS Ija Belle Divernaise5appho Illustrated by ROSSI. ARANDA, MYRBACH, BEAUMONT. MONTEGUT, PiCARD. I2mo, half leather, $ ; paper, $ GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONSNkw York and London Press Notices of Tartarin of Tarascon. Tirtarin of Tarascon, the most deliciously humorous and satiricallydelightful of all books of the kind. ... is published with a beautifulletter-press, and all of the very delicate illustrations of the French artists,Aranda, de Beaumont, Montenard, de Myrbach and Rossi, which are set inalluring nooks of the text.—Boston Globe. None but a Frenchman could have conceived such a master-piece asthis. Its irresistiole drollery, its charming ingenuousness, its absolute fidelity to nature, its irrepressible liveliness, its but even English words to characterize accurately such a book as this are wanting.—Albany Argus. No English writer with whom we are acquainted, and certainly noAmerican writer, could have divined the exquisite literary qualities whichM. Daudet has discovered in these grotesque trifles. . Theart which went to the making of Tartarin is no
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