Part 14

This is among the finest of George Sand’s romances, and one who has not made acquaintance with her works would do well to choose it as the introductory volume. It belongs in the list of the best works of that remarkable author, and contains nothing that is objectionable or at all questionable in its moral tone. The scenes are laid among the peasantry of France--simple-hearted, plodding, honest people, who know little or nothing of the causes which are fomenting to bring about the French Revolution. She portrays in clear and forcible language the destitute condition of the rural districts, whose people were ignorant, priest-ridden, and oppressed; and she shows the wretchedness and misery that these poor people were compelled to endure during the progress of the Revolution. The book is one of her masterpieces, by reason of the exquisite delineations of character, the keen and philosophical thought, the purity of inspiration, and the delicacy and refinement of style. Throughout the story there is a freshness and vigor which only one can feel who has lived at some time in close intimacy with fields and woods, and become familiar with the forms, the colors, and the sounds of Nature. The book has been translated by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer, who has performed her task admirably.--_Public Opinion._

Mrs. Latimer has achieved marked success in the translation of this charming tale, preserving its purity, its simplicity, and its pastoral beauty.--_Christian Union._

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_A Beautiful Betrothal and Wedding Gift._

THE

LOVER’S YEAR-BOOK OF POETRY.

A Collection of Love Poems for Every Day in the Year.

BY HORACE P. CHANDLER.

FIRST SERIES. Vol. I. January to June. Bicolor, $1.25; white and gold, $1.50. Vol. II. July to December. Bicolor, $1.25; white and gold, $1.50.

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The Poems in the First Series touch upon LOVE PRIOR TO MARRIAGE; those in the Second Series are of MARRIED-LIFE AND CHILD-LIFE.

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Mr. Chandler has drawn from many and diverse wells of English poetry of Love, as the list for any month shows. The poetry of passion is not here, but there are many strains of Love such as faithful lovers feel.--_Literary World, Boston._

We do not hesitate to pronounce it a collection of extraordinary freshness and merit. It is not in hackneyed rhymes that his lovers converse, but in fresh metres from the unfailing fountains.--_Independent, New York._

Mr. Chandler is catholic in his tastes, and no author of repute has been omitted who could give variety or strength to the work. The children have never been reached in verse in a more comprehensive and connected manner than they are in this book.--_Gazette, Boston._

A very dainty and altogether bewitching little anthology. For each day in each month of two years (each series covering a year) a poem is given celebrating the emotions that beset the heart of the true lover. The editor has shown his exquisite taste in selection, and his wide and varied knowledge of the literature of English and American poetry. Every poem in these books is a perfect gem of sentiment; either tender, playful, reproachful, or supplicatory in its meaning; there is not a sonnet nor a lyric that one could wish away.--_Beacon, Boston._

“The selections,” says Louise Chandler Moulton, “given us are nearly all interesting, and some of them are not only charming but unhackneyed.”--_Herald, Boston._

A collection of Love poems selected with exquisite judgment from the best known English and American poets of the last three centuries, with a few translations.--_Home Journal, Boston._

There are many beautiful poems gathered into this treasure-house, and so great is the variety which has been given to the whole that the monotony which would seem to be the necessary accompaniment of the choice of a single theme is overcome.--_Courier, Boston._

The selections are not fragments, but are for the most part complete poems. Nearly every one of the poems is a literary gem, and they represent nearly all the famous names in poetry.--_Daily Advertiser, Boston._

Selected with great taste and judgment from a wide variety of sources, and providing a body of verse of the highest order.--_Commercial Advertiser, Buffalo._

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Sonia’s mother was a German, the daughter of Schubert the astronomer. Marie Bashkirtseff’s grandmother was also German, and Fru Leffler was descended from a German family who had settled in Sweden.

[2] “A Doll’s House,” by Henrik Ibsen.

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