ding;" and the _Westminster Review_, as "always
bright and picturesque, and eminently readable." (_Shortly_.)

No. 99. PLAYS FOR PRIVATE ACTING. Translated from the French and
Italian by members of the Bellevue Dramatic Club of Newport, R. I. Over
twenty plays for amateur acting, requiring little or no scenery and
from one to seven characters, selected principally from the enormously
successful THEATRE DE CAMPAGNE, recently published by the LEADING
FRENCH DRAMATISTS. (_Shortly_.)

No. 100. A CENTURY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. Edited by Henry A. Beers,
Professor in Yale College. Selections from writers no longer living,
designed to present a sketch of that portion of our good literature
which is not daily claiming attention. (_Shortly_.)

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_HENRY HOLT & CO., Publishers. 25 Bond St., N. Y._

EDELWEISS

[Illustration: Leontopodium Alpinum]

"There is a flower known to botanists, one of the same genus with our
summer plant called 'Life-Everlasting,' a _Gnaphalium_ like that, which
grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains, where
the chamois dare hardly venture, and which the hunter, tempted by its
beauty and by his love (for it is immensely valued by the Swiss
maidens), climbs the cliffs to gather, and is sometimes found dead at
the foot, with the flower in his hand. It is called by botanists the
_Gnaphalium leontopodium_, but by the Swiss _EDELWEISSE_, which
signifies _NOBLE PURITY_."

RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

(_Leisure-Hour Series_)

ON THE HEIGHTS. 2 vols.
THE VILLA ON THE RHINE. 2 vols.
BLACK FOREST VILLAGE STORIES
LITTLE BAREFOOT
JOSEPH IN THE SNOW
EDELWEISS
GERMAN TALES
WALDFRIED
THE CONVICTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
LORLEY AND REINHARD
ALOYS
POET AND MERCHANT
LANDOLIN

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EDELWEISS

A STORY

BY
BERTHOLD AUERBA