“The reading of these choice stories will prove an exciting pleasure to all who may linger on the pages that present them.”—Boston Courier.
“A strikingly realistic and decidedly original contribution to modern literature.”—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
PAUL AND VIRGINIA. By Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. With a Biographical Sketch, and numerous Illustrations by Maurice Leloir. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, uniform with “Picciola,” “The Story of Colette,” and “An Attic Philosopher in Paris.” $1.50.
It is believed that this standard edition of “Paul and Virginia” with Leloir’s charming illustrations will prove a most acceptable addition to the series of illustrated foreign classics in which D. Appleton & Co. have published “The Story of Colette,” “An Attic Philosopher in Paris,” and “Picciola.” No more sympathetic illustrator than Leloir could be found, and his treatment of this masterpiece of French literature invests it with a peculiar value.
PICCIOLA. By X. B. Saintine. With 130 Illustrations by J. F. Gueldry. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.50.
“Saintine’s ‘Picciola,’ the pathetic tale of the prisoner who raised a flower between the cracks of the flagging of his dungeon, has passed definitely into the list of classic books.... It has never been more beautifully housed than in this edition, with its fine typography, binding, and sympathetic illustrations.”—Philadelphia Telegraph.
AN ATTIC PHILOSOPHER IN PARIS; or, A Peep at the World from a Garret. Being the Journal of a Happy Man. By Émile Souvestre. With numerous Illustrations. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.50.
“A suitable holiday gift for a friend who appreciates refined literature.”—Boston Times.
“The influence of the book is wholly good. The volume is a particularly handsome one.”—Philadelphia Telegraph.
“It is a classic. It has found an appropriate reliquary. Faithfully translated, charmingly illustrated by Jean Claude with full-page pictures, vignettes in the text, and head and tail pieces, printed in graceful type on handsome paper, and bound with an art worthy of Matthews, in half-cloth, ornamented on the cover, it is an exemplary book, fit to be ‘a treasure for aye.’”—New York Times.