MARK TWAIN'S JOAN OF ARC.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. By the Sieur Louis de Conte, her Page and Secretary. Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the National Archives of France, by Jean François Alden. Illustrated from Original Drawings by F. V. Du Mond, and from Reproductions of Old Paintings and Statues, pp. xvi., 461. Crown 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $2.50.
One of the most delightful books of the time. It is read with keen enjoyment, and its leaves will be turned over again many times in delicious reminiscence of its fascinating episodes and its entrancing digressions.—Richard Henry Stoddard, in N. Y. Mail and Express.
Mark Twain, in the best book he has ever written, has given us a life of Joan of Arc so amazing in its realism, its vividness and force, that, like Shakespeare's plays, it compels acceptance.... It seems to us that Mark Twain's "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" is not only the best thing he has ever done, but one of the best things done by anybody in fiction for a long time past.—Speaker, London.