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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Leopard Cover design (reduced) by Miss AmyCollier (Henry Holt & Co.). Miss Collier has here used a gro-tesque motif with a full-faced letter,making a poster-like cover. It isprinted In black, gray, and yellow.Among her other covers may be men-tioned those for The Gadfly andKing Circumstance. SOME NEW EDITIONS
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HONORE BALZAC. ALONGSIDE of the demand for the very newestbooks in fiction, there is plainly perceptible agrowing appreciation of the approved masters of theart of novel-writing ; and so the publishers find a goodmarket for freshly edited editions of Dickens andThackeray, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and therest. Heretofore, of the older French novelists, thosemost universally appreciated by English-speaking read-ers, and most demand-ed in translations,have probably beenDumas and VictorHugo. It is evidence,perhaps, of a highercapacity of literaryappreciation, thatthere should, withinthe past decade, havebeen so marked a re-vival of interest in thenovels of Honore deBalzac that, volumin-ous as were his writ-ings, several publish-ers in England andthe United Stateshave ventured uponelaborate translationsin numerous volumeswith special introduc-tions and illustrations. The latest translation of these collected novels andtales, constituting what in their range of human interestBalzac hi

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