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Title: Parisian Points of View

Author: Ludovic Halevy

Commentator: Brander Matthews

Translator: Edith V. B. Matthews

Release Date: March 25, 2005 [EBook #15465]

Language: English

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MASTER-TALES

PARISIAN
POINTS OF VIEW

BY
LUDOVIC HALEVY

TRANSLATED BY
EDITH V.B. MATTHEWS

WITH INTRODUCTION BY
BRANDER MATTHEWS

[Illustration]

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

Copyright, 1894, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

_All rights reserved._

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION vii
ONLY A WALTZ 3
THE DANCING-MASTER 37
THE CIRCUS CHARGER 49
BLACKY 69
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN PARIS 83
THE STORY OF A BALL-DRESS 113
THE INSURGENT 137
THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR 147
IN THE EXPRESS 161

INTRODUCTION

THE SHORT STORIES OF M. LUDOVIC HALEVY

To most American readers of fiction I fancy that M. Ludovic Halevy is
known chiefly, if not solely, as the author of that most charming of
modern French novels, _The Abbe Constantin_. Some of these readers may
have disliked this or that novel of M. Zola's because of its bad moral,
and this or that novel of M. Ohnet's because of its bad taste, and all
of them were delighted to discover in M. Halevy's interesting and
artistic work a story written by a French gentleman for young ladies.
Here and there a scoffer might sneer at the tale of the old French
priest and the young women from Canada as innocuous and saccharine; but
the story of the good Abbe Constantin and o