THE STORY OF COLETTE. A new large-paper edition. With 36 Illustrations. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $1.50.
“One of the handsomest of the books of fiction for the holiday season.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
“One of the gems of the season.... It is the story of the life of young womanhood in France, dramatically told, with the light and shade and coloring of the genuine artist, and is utterly free from that which mars too many French novels. In its literary finish it is well nigh perfect, indicating the hand of the master.”—Boston Traveller.
A FRIEND OF THE QUEEN. (Marie Antoinette—Count de Fersen.) By Paul Gaulot. With Two Portraits, 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.
“M. Gaulot deserves thanks for presenting the personal history of Count Fersen in a manner so evidently candid and unbiased.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
“There are some characters in history of whom we never seem to grow tired. Of no one is this so much the case as of the beautiful Marie Antoinette, and of that life which is at once so eventful and so tragic.... In this work we have much that up to the present time has been only vaguely known.”—Philadelphia Press.
“A historical volume that will be eagerly read.”—New York Observer.
“One of those captivating recitals of the romance of truth which are the gilding of the pill of history.”—London Daily News.
“It tells with new and authentic details the romantic story of Count Fersen’s (the Friend of the Queen) devotion to Marie Antoinette, of his share in the celebrated flight to Varennes, and in many other well known episodes of the unhappy Queen’s life.”—London Times.
“If the book had no more recommendation than the mere fact that Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen are rescued at last from the voluminous and contradictory representations with which the literature of that period abounds, it would be enough compensation to any reader to become acquainted with the true delineations of two of the most romantically tragic personalities.—”Boston Globe.