A Latin-Quarter Courtship

# Catalog Note

This collection of four stories by Henry Harland was published in 1901 by Street & Smith and originally copyrighted in 1896 by Cassell Publishing Company. The title story, "A Latin-Quarter Courtship," concerns Stephen Ormizon, an American novelist in Paris who advertises for a copyist to transcribe his manuscript A Voice from the Wilderness. Among thirteen responses, he selects the applicant D. Personette based on elegant handwriting and refined penmanship. Upon visiting her residence on Rue Soufflot, he discovers the copyist is actually Dr. Gluck, a woman physician he knew previously and had believed to be living abroad. The narrative develops as a romantic encounter between two acquaintances reunited unexpectedly in the Latin Quarter, with Ormizon planning to return to New York in September. The volume also includes three additional stories: "Mr. Sonnenschein's Inheritance," "Lilith," and "Mrs. Ormizon's Dinner Party."