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Love in Friendship

(A NAMELESS SENTIMENT)

With a Preface in Fragments from Stendhal

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY

HENRI PÈNE DU BOIS.

1 vol. in 8vo, bound in cloth, price $1.50.

FRANCISQUE SARCEY says in Le Figaro: "Here is a book which is talked of a great deal, for it is one of the prettiest dramas of real life ever related to the public. Must I say that well-informed people affirm that the letters of the man, true, or almost true, hardly arranged, were written by Guy de Maupassant? I like the book, and

it seems to me it will have a place in the collection, so voluminous already, of modern ways of love."

"This correspondence is all powdered with exquisite things, and is instinct with a subtlety leading one on and on."-N. Y. Evening Post.

"The device is not new; but seldom has it been carried out more effectively and powerfully than in this case... Cannot this be called a rather remarkable story?"-Boston Literary World.

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NEW SERIES. VOL. I

A young artist, who has but recently taken his abode in New York and devoted himself to that new branch of art, the designing of book and magazine covers, is Charles W. Traver. Among the large number of artists who have of late appeared in this particular field Mr. Traver is certainly one of the most prominent. His talent and his thorough, artistic education enable him to fill a place in the high ranks of fine art; yet he is both modest and brave enough to devote his talent to this branch so often looked down upon by many self-styled artists. We admire and love him for that. Book Cover Art, up to not so very long ago was not more than part of commercial art, if we may say so, supplied by the printing and lithographic establishments. Only of late years has it become recognized as real art and we must say has made wonderful progress, although it is still much neglected and overlooked by the artists as well as by the public. Book Cover Art in connection with Poster Art and the designing of Book Marks and ex-libris, styled in German Kleinkunst, thank their wonderful development to the renascence of

printing, bookmaking and literature; to that fin-de-siécle spirit, ridiculed by Nordau as "degeneration," yet more correctly to be called a “rejuvenation." This whole great movement, degenerate as it is called by the Philistines, is only a repetition of the movements and reactions of former centuries, in a new form. Such a reaction was the period of the French revolution at the end of the last century. Even during the first half of this century we have a somewhat similar example in the case of the German poet Heine, who was the death knell to romanticism, who struck like a flash of lighting into the dull and sorry times of the "restoration period," who was in his time called no less a degenerate in literature and morals than our present reformers, but stands today firm and strong as a true genius of the world's literature. The significance of our present fin-de-siécle movement is manifested by such names as William Morris, Aubrey Beardsley, Joseph Sattler, Max Liebermann, Max Klinger, Cheret, Steinlen, Willette, Puvis de Chavanne, Will H. Bradley, Louis Rhead, Penfield, Sudermann, Haupt