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irty-two page illustrated leaflet about Mr. De Morgan, with complete reviews of his first four books, sent on request. JEAN-CHRISTOPHE _By ROMAIN ROLLAND_ Translated from the French by GILBERT CANNAN. In three volumes, each $1.50 net This great trilogy, the life story of a musician, at first the sensation of musical circles in Paris, has come to be one of the most discussed books among literary circles in France, England and America. Each volume of the American edition has its own individual interest, can be understood without the other, and comes to a definite conclusion. _The three volumes with the titles of the French volumes included are:_ =JEAN-CHRISTOPHE= DAWN--MORNING--YOUTH--REVOLT =JEAN-CHRISTOPHE IN PARIS= THE MARKET PLACE--ANTOINETTE--THE HOUSE =JEAN-CHRISTOPHE: JOURNEY'S END= LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP--THE BURNING BUSH--THE NEW DAWN _Some Noteworthy Comments_ "'Hats off, gentlemen--a genius.'. One may mention 'Jean-Christophe' in the same breath with Balzac's 'Lost Illusions'; it is as big as that. * It is moderate praise to call it with Edmund Gosse 'the noblest work of fiction of the twentieth century.' * A book as big, as elemental, as original as though the art of fiction began today. * We have nothing comparable in English literature. * "--_Springfield Republican._ "If a man wishes to understand those devious currents which make up the great, changing sea of modern life, there is hardly a single book more illustrative, more informing and more inspiring."--_Current Opinion._ "Must rank as one of the very few important works of fiction of the last decade. A vital compelling work. We who love it feel that it will live."--_Independent._ "The most momentous novel that has come to us from France, or from any other European country, in a decade."--_Boston Transcript._ _A 32-page booklet about Romain Rolland and Jean-Christophe, with portraits and complete reviews, on request._ Coningsby Dawson's THE GARDEN WITHOUT WALLS The triple romance of a Pagan-Puritan of to-day, with three heroines of unusual charm. $1.35 net. _Boston Transcript:_--"All vivid with the color of life; a novel to compel not only absorbed attention, but long remembrance." _Cosmo Hamilton in The New York Sun:_--"A new writer who is an old master.... He lets all the poet in him loose.... He h
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