s the most beautiful and desirable library edition of
these great works.

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To what other man can we attribute such sweeping innovations, such a new
and significant presentment of the life of man, such an amount, if we
merely think of the amount, of equally consummate performance.--ROBERT
LOUIS STEVENSON.

_A model edition for use and convenience._--_Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette._

A permanent, delightful book to all good judges of publishing.--_The
Beacon._

_A most beautiful and desirable library edition._--_Baltimore American._

A delight to the eye and the touch.--_Boston Journal._

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LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,

254 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON.

=BRICHANTEAU, ACTOR=.

Translated from the French of

=JULES CLARETIE, Manager of the Comedie Francaise=

With Preface by FRANCISQUE SARCEY.

12mo. Cloth, extra, gilt top. $1.50.

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M. Jules Claretie has had a wide acquaintance with actors. He has had an
opportunity of studying them still more closely since he has been the
manager of the Comedie Francaise. Brichanteau is charming because he is
always treading the boards, because he believes in good faith that his
life is a drama, in which he plays the principal part. The work is
written with a sprightly and witty pen.--FRANCISQUE SARCEY.

The translation has preserved the sprightly wit and grace of the
original, in which all the shades of character, frequently delicate and
elusive, are brought out by refined turns of expression.--_Philadelphia
Press._

As a whole, the book is a delightful and beautiful work of art. The man
of whom Claretie writes becomes a living character to us, and we love
him as we would such a man in real life.--_Cincinnati Tribune._

He is more than a sketch; he is a Meissonier portrait, painted with all
that accuracy of detail for which Meissonier was famous.--_Boston
Literary World._

One of the most pathetically humorous books ever written, and it should
become a classic.--_St. Louis Mirror._

That there is a lovable, generous, elevated, human and humane
picturesqueness to the caricatured strolling player is shown with such
admirable truth by Claretie, that his "Brichanteau" deserves permanency
among desirable books.--_Washington Times._

You love Brichanteau and take him to your heart, for he is an honest
fellow, who fights gallantly an