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I. SAMUEL BROHL AND COMPANY. A Novel. From the French of VictorCherbuliez. 1 vol., 16mo. Paper cover, 60 cents; cloth, $1.00.
II. GERARD'S MARRIAGE. A Novel. From the French of André Theuriet.Paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents.
III. SPIRITE. A Fantasy. From the French of Théophile Gautier. Papercover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents.
IV. THE TOWER OF PERCEMONT. From the French of George Sand. Papercover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents.
V. META HOLDENIS. A Novel. From the French of Victor Cherbuliez.Paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents.
VI. ROMANCES OF THE EAST. From the French of Comte de Gobineau. Papercover, 60 cents; cloth, $1.00.
VII. RENEE AND FRANZ (Le Bleuet). From the French of Gustave Haller.Paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents.
VIII. MADAME GOSSELIN. From the French of Louis Ulbach. Paper cover,60 cents; cloth, $1.00.
IX. THE GODSON OF A MARQUIS. From the French of André Theuriet. Papercover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents.
X. ARIADNE. From the French of Henry Greville. Paper cover, 50 cents;cloth, 75 cents.
XI. SAFAR-HADGI; or, Russ and Turcoman. From the French of PrinceLubomirski. Paper cover, 60 cents; cloth, $1.00.
XII. IN PARADISE. From the German of Paul Heyse. 2 vols. Per vol.,paper cover, 60 cents; doth, $1.00.
***It has been decided to omit from this translation the poems whichare scattered through the novel in the German. A few trifling changesin certain passages have been made necessary by this omission; and thetranslator has in two or three cases very slightly condensed the text.
It was a Sunday in the midsummer of 1869.
The air, cleared by a thunderstorm the night before, was stilltremulous with that soft, invigorating warmth which, farther south,makes breathing such an easy matter, but which, north of the Alps,seldom outlasts the early morning. And yet the bells, that sounded fromthe Munich Frauenkirche far across the Theresienwiese, and the fieldwhere stands the great statue of Bavaria, were already ringing for highmass. Here, outside the city, there seemed to be no human ear tolisten. The great bronze maiden stood there in the deepest solitude,holding her w