Part 57

Whitfeld, Mr., 57 note -- on Saltash women, 663

Whitley, Major, 105

Whitley, Mr. H. M., 140

Whitsand Bay, 148, 405, 406

Whittlesea Mere, 148

Whitworth, Charles, Earl of, 251

Whitworth, Mr., 311

Whytford's _Martyrologie_, 557

Wickford, 28

Widdrington, Lord, 15

Wideslade, "Sir Tristram," 652

Wigan, 13

Wightwick, George, 570

Wilkinson, Edward, 391-393

William I, 298

William III, 12, 16, 105, 106, 183, 210, 212, 305, 364, 542, 638, 701

William IV, 64 note

_William Eaton_, 686

Williams, Dr., 236

Williams, Gratiana, 268

Williams, John, 516 -- dreams of Perceval's murder, 427-431

Williams, Lieut.-General R., 268

Williams, Mary, 59

Williams, Michael, 427, 430

Williams, Rev. Samuel, 76

Williams, William, 403

Willingdon, 679

Willis, Andrew, 367

Wilmot family, the, 619

Wills, Anthony, of Gorran, 12

Wills, Anthony, of Saltash, 12

Wills, Digory, 12

Wills, K.B., Sir Charles, death of, 17 -- family and arms of, 12 -- his defence of Preston, 13, 14, 15 -- M.P. for Totnes, 16 -- promotions of, 13, 15, 16, 17 -- Sir Charles, serves in Holland and Spain, 12

Wills, Mr., 603, 606, 612

Wills, Richard, of Acombe, 12

Wills, Thomas, 341

Willyams, John, 341

Wilton, 589

Wilson, John, 272, 274

Wilson, Mr., 275

Winchester, Bishop of, 643, 649

Winchester Castle, 37

Windmill Hill, Brixham, 7

Windsor Castle, 39, 661

_Windsor Castle_, 623

Windsor, Duke of, 386

Wingfield, William, 520

Winnington, 207

Winthrop, Elizabeth, 28

Winton, Lord, 15

Woffington, Peg, 286

Wolvedon, 652, 653

Wolverston, Mary, 133

Wolverston, Philip, 133

Wood, E. J., 126, 185, 722

Wood, Nicholas, 195

Wood, Peter, 272, 273, 274, 276, 277

Woodstock, 432

Woolley, 400, 406

Woolley, James Tilley, 406

Wool merchants, 108, 109, 110 -- and Henry VI, 112

Woolsten, 366

Worcester, 112, 387

Worcester College, Oxford, 284

Worcester, Marquis of, 39 -- siege of, 38

Worral Hill, 173

Worth, Archbishop, 434

Worth, Mr. R. N., 140

Wortham, 453

_Worthies of Armorie, The_, 554

Wrecks, at Land's End, 503 -- of the _Anson_, 60, 71 -- of the _Association_ with Sir Cloudesley Shovel, 640, 647 -- of the _Berlin_, 70 -- of Charles Incledon, 380 -- of the _Eagle_, _Romney_, _Firebrand_, and _Phœnix_, 640, 643, 647 -- of the _Guardian_, 319 -- of the _Kent_, 497 -- of the _Kyber_, 67 -- of the _Lady Hobart_, 261-263, 267 -- of the _Thunderer_, 376

Wren, Mr. Henry, 123

Wrestling, Cornish, 54, 495 -- Devonshire, 54

Wrey, Edmund, 397

Wrey, Jane, 388, 396, 398

Wrey, John, 388, 396, 398

Wyatt, Mr., 583

Wyndham, William, 319

Wyvelscombe, 12

Yonge, Dr. William, his account of Peters, 27, 28

York, 331

York, Archbishop of, 434, 435

York, Duke of, 290, 482, 485

York, James, Duke of, 96, 102, 550

Young, J. C., 578

"Young Men's Club," 555

Zaccaria, Catherine, 729

Zagros, 462

Zaire, 409

Zante, 450, 451

Zanzibar, 462

THE WORKS OF ANATOLE FRANCE

It has long been a reproach to England that only one volume by ANATOLE FRANCE has been adequately rendered into English; yet outside this country he shares with TOLSTOI the distinction of being the greatest and most daring student of humanity now living.

¶ There have been many difficulties to encounter in completing arrangements for a uniform edition, though perhaps the chief barrier to publication here has been the fact that his writings are not for babes--but for men and the mothers of men. Indeed, some of his Eastern romances are written with biblical candour. "I have sought truth strenuously," he tells us, "I have met her boldly. I have never turned from her even when she wore an unexpected aspect." Still, it is believed that the day has come for giving English versions of all his imaginative works, as well as of his monumental study JOAN OF ARC, which is undoubtedly the most discussed book in the world of letters to-day.

¶ MR. JOHN LANE has pleasure in announcing that he will commence publication of the works of M. ANATOLE FRANCE in English, under the general editorship of MR. FREDERIC CHAPMAN, with the following volumes:

THE RED LILY MOTHER OF PEARL THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS THE CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD JOCASTA AND THE FAMISHED CAT BALTHASAR THE WELL OF ST. CLARE THE ELM TREE ON THE MALL THE WICKER-WORK WOMAN AT THE SIGN OF THE QUEEN PÉDAUQUE THE OPINIONS OF JEROME COIGNARD MY FRIEND'S BOOK THE ASPIRATIONS OF JEAN SERVIEN THAÏS JOAN OF ARC (2 vols.)

¶ All the books will be published at 6/- each with the exception of JOAN OF ARC, which will be 25/- net the two volumes, with eight Illustrations.

¶ The format of the volumes leaves little to be desired. The size is Demy 8vo (9 × 5-3/4 in.), that of this Prospectus, and they will be printed from Caslon type upon a paper light in weight and strong in texture, with a cover design in crimson and gold, a gilt top, end-papers from designs by Aubrey Beardsley and initials by Henry Ospovat. In short, these are volumes for the bibliophile as well as the lover of fiction, and form perhaps the cheapest library edition of copyright novels ever published, for the price is only that of an ordinary novel.

¶ The translation of these books has been entrusted to such competent French scholars as MR. ALFRED ALLINSON, HON. MAURICE BARING, MR. FREDERIC CHAPMAN, MR. ROBERT B. DOUGLAS, MR. A. W. EVANS, MRS. FARLEY, MR. LAFCADIO HEARN, MRS. JOHN LANE, MRS. NEWMARCH, MR. C. E. ROCHE, MISS WINIFRED STEPHENS, and MISS M. P. WILLCOCKS.

¶ As Anatole Thibault, _dit_ Anatole France, is to most English readers merely a name, it will be well to state that he was born in 1844 in the picturesque and inspiring surroundings of an old bookshop on the Quai Voltaire, Paris, kept by his father, Monsieur Thibault, an authority on eighteenth-century history, from whom the boy caught the passion for the principles of the Revolution, while from his mother he was learning to love the ascetic ideals chronicled in the Lives of the Saints. He was schooled with the lovers of old books, missals and manuscripts; he matriculated on the Quais with the old Jewish dealers of curios and _objets d'art_; he graduated in the great university of life and experience. It will be recognised that all his work is permeated by his youthful impressions; he is, in fact, a virtuoso at large.

¶ He has written about thirty volumes of fiction. His first novel was JOCASTA & THE FAMISHED CAT (1879). THE CRIME OF SYLVESTRE BONNARD appeared in 1881, and had the distinction of being crowned by the French Academy, into which he was received in 1896.

¶ His work is illuminated with style, scholarship, and psychology; but its outstanding features are the lambent wit, the gay mockery, the genial irony with which he touches every subject he treats. But the wit is never malicious, the mockery never derisive, the irony never barbed. To quote from his own GARDEN OF EPICURUS: "Irony and Pity are both of good counsel; the first with her smiles makes life agreeable, the other sanctifies it to us with her tears. The Irony I invoke is no cruel deity. She mocks neither love nor beauty. She is gentle and kindly disposed. Her mirth disarms anger and it is she teaches us to laugh at rogues and fools whom but for her we might be so weak as to hate."

¶ Often he shows how divine humanity triumphs over mere asceticism, and with entire reverence; indeed, he might be described as an ascetic overflowing with humanity, just as he has been termed a "pagan, but a pagan constantly haunted by the pre-occupation of Christ." He is in turn--like his own Choulette in THE RED LILY--saintly and Rabelaisian, yet without incongruity. At all times he is the unrelenting foe of superstition and hypocrisy. Of himself he once modestly said: "You will find in my writings perfect sincerity (lying demands a talent I do not possess), much indulgence, and some natural affection for the beautiful and good."

¶ The mere extent of an author's popularity is perhaps a poor argument, yet it is significant that two books by this author are in their HUNDRED AND TENTH THOUSAND, and numbers of them well into their SEVENTIETH THOUSAND, whilst the one which a Frenchman recently described as "Monsieur France's most arid book" is in its FIFTY-EIGHTH THOUSAND.

¶ Inasmuch as M. FRANCE'S ONLY contribution to an English periodical appeared in THE YELLOW BOOK, vol. v., April 1895, together with the first important English appreciation of his work from the pan of the Hon. Maurice Baring, it is peculiarly appropriate that the English edition of his works should be issued from the Bodley Head.

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