TRANSLATED BY KATHARINE PRESCOTT WORMELEY.

TRANSLATOR OF BALZAC'S NOVELS.

_With Preface to Moliere's Works by Honore de Balzac, Criticisms on the
Author by Sainte-Beuve, Portraits by Coypel and Mignard, and decorative
Titlepages._

=Arrangement of the Plays.=

Vol. I. The Misanthrope; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Vol. II. Tartuffe; Les Precieuses Ridicules; George Dandin.
Vol. III. Les Femmes Savantes; Le Malade Imaginaire.
Vol. IV. L'Avare; Don Juan; Les Facheux.
Vol. V. L'Ecole des Femmes; L'Ecole des Maris; Monsieur
de Pourceaugnac.
Vol. VI. L'Etourdi; Le Mariage Force; Le Medecin Malgre
Lui; La Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes.

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All are familiar with Miss Wormeley's admirable English version of
Balzac; and we know of no greater praise in behalf of her recent
translation of Moliere than to say it betrays the same knowledge, skill,
and insight that has made her name famous among the lovers of high
literature. While it is undoubtedly true that the student of Moliere
would turn by preference to the original, it is equally true that those
who cannot read his works in their native form are now indebted to Miss
Wormeley for an appreciation of Sainte-Beuve's declaration "that to love
Moliere is to love uprightness and health of mind, in others as well as
in ourselves." She did a splendid service for two literatures by her
admirable English rendering of the author whom many regard as France's
first novelist, and now she continues by an equally excellent
translation of the works of the genius to whom is conceded with still
greater unanimity the rank of France's first dramatist. And by a happy
thought Miss Wormeley avails herself, for the presentation of Moliere to
American readers, of the eloquent tribute which Balzac paid to him in
his preface to his own edition of Moliere, issued in his younger days.
The translator also calls attention to the singular parallel afforded in
the lives of the two writers. These "fathers of the 'Comedy of Human
Life' and of realism," she says, "died at the same age (fifty-one); the
fame of both was of little more than fifteen years' duration in their
lifetime; both died of the toil to which their genius impelled them; and
both are going down with ever-brightening lustre to posterity."--_Boston
Budget._

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