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You are of course aware that it is attributed exclusively to your influence. This is not only the conviction of M. de Salvandy himself and the french government, but I have seen letters from Madrid, from persons entirely unconnected with either, written under the same persuasion.

Daudet himself confessed that the work had been written too soon and with too little reflection. "I wish I had waited," he said; "something good might have been written on my youth". "Tartarin de Tarascon" was written in 1869. Success and happiness had crowned Daudet's efforts.

William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1845. Humphry Clinker, by SMOLLETT. The Annals of the Parish and the Ayrshire Legalees, by JOHN GALT. With Memoir of the Author, a new edition. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1841. The Life of Mamie Wauch, tailor in Dalkeith, written by Himself. Stereotype Edition. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.

That there was little congeniality between husband and wife cannot be doubted, yet Mme. de La Fayette's own letters go to prove that for a time at least she was not unhappy. In a letter to Ménage, written from Auvergne soon after her marriage, she says: "La solitude que je trouve ici m'est plutôt agréable qu'ennuyeuse.

L'exemplaire du British Museum porte les noms propres, qui étaient indiqués par des astérisques dans l'impression, écrits de la grande écriture droite et ferme de Burns. Il contient aussi le poème Reflections on a Sick-bed, qui semble aussi être de sa main. Mais un autre poème, Verses written on the Hermitage at Taymouth by Mr Burns, est d'une main différente.

I have long been desirous that a complete French translation of the books I have written should be made, and should be published in an uniform series.

A Memoir of the Life of the late Robert Burns, written by R. HERON. Edinburgh, Printed for T. Brown, 1797.

Almost every other year between 1862 and 1892 a new play, on untried themes, or adapted from one of his novels and usually written in collaboration, appeared at a Parisian theater. Of all these only one, "L'Arlésienne" , is worthy of its author. Already in 1859, as a result of the suffering of the preceding years and lack of precautions, his health had begun to fail.