This novel was “crowned” by the French Academy in 1881, the author being received into membership in 1896.
“The highest presentation of France’s many qualities and gifts is to be found in this exquisite book.”
Joan of Arc. Translated by Winifred Stephens. 2 volumes. $8.00 net per set. Postage extra.
“This is an epoch-making book.... Beneath the simplicity of the mediæval narrative there may still be discerned the delicious irony and the delicate subtle humor of the novels.”—Winifred Stephens in “French Novelists of Today.”
DOLF WYLLARDE
12mo $1.50 each
“Dolf Wyllarde sees life with clear eyes and puts down what she sees with a fearless pen.... More than a little of the flavor of Kipling, in the good old days of Plain Tales from the Hills.”—New York Globe.
Mafoota
A Romance of Jamaica
“The plot has a resemblance to that of Wilkie Collins’ ‘The New Magdalen,’ but the heroine is a puritan of the strictest type; the subject matter is like ‘The Helpmate.’”—Springfield Republican.