Life — December 16, 1909 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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Baxntx & Son’s is the edition Aur excellence of BaLzac.”"—RICMARD Hunxy Stoppax, | ** A monumental undertakin irably executed.”"—Pudlic Ledger Philadelphia. Admirably printed and llustected, Hasaie & Sows edition is the oaly English version which AA translation that is complete, wortby of a great classic and stylistically artiatic.'—Danyamrn contains all that is in the original.”"—M.'W. Hazutting, in the New York Sun. W. Wats, in The Churchman (the largest and most widely circulated weekly in the Protestant ‘There is only one English translation of Batzac that is complete and unexpurgated, and that is | Episcopal Church). ote a published by Geonox Baxute & Son.""—The Bookman, New York. ‘or the first time we really have Balzac in English . you have made a great contribution “The Barsiz Eprrion will take its place at once’as the standard edition of the great French Meehan te ary scholarship."—Rev. Paxpenicx W. Haititron, D- D., Chairman, Trustees "—Beston Evening Transcript. of Tufts College, Boston. i Tinatiainable has very nearly been achieved. Coarseness has bees avoided without expur-| ” “Translations absolutely faithful to the spirit/and text of Ualzac.""—The Mail and Express, —Jouivs Cuastans, i Philadelphia Times. New York. HONORE DE BALZAC “La Maison Barrie et fils a pense qu'il | MM. George Ban convenait, au seuil du XXE siecle, d'elever ’ 77 | ediveurs de Philadelphi un monument durable au grand romancierdu| ff f edition de I'euvre de Balza: XIX. Elle lance aujourd'hui cette grande, illustree par des artistes fra ‘Nos peins serttable od in de luxe, illustree avec amour é L an C4 ue tree, dessinateure et Eraveurs oot execuie | ar les meilleurs artistes, . ss S | reproduit plus de quatre cents compositions taines de mille francs pour editer superbe- Cc | font vraiment bien les choses!" —Le Figaro ment Balzac.” —L' Mlustration, Faris. arts. The Only Complete Translations ‘THE SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED DeFinitivE EDITION OF THE BaRRIE BALZAC DELIVERED COMPLETE; PAYABLE BY SMALL MONTHLY REMIT- ‘TANCES IF DESIRED, SPECIMEN PAGES AND ILLUSTRATIONS SENT BY MAIL FREE OF CHARGE, ‘THE DEFINITIVE TEXT IN THE ONLY ABSOLUTELY COMPLETE TRANSLATIONS, PRINTED ON A SUPERFINE QUALITY OF WOVE PAPER, ILLUS- TRATED WITH ETCHINGS BY MM. Boitot, Dusoucuet, Fatvre, Le Sueur, De Los Rios, Erc. (PROOFS OF WHICH WERE ACCEPTED BY THE JURY FOR EXHIBITION AT THE Paris. SALON), ARTISTICALLY BOUND IN BUCKRAM, GILT TOPS, EDGES UNCUT. “The Comédie Humaine, a group of works that, as has been said, constitute in themselves an entire literature. . . . In them all classes of society, men and women of every rank and station, appear and reappear—fops, noblemen, scholars, philosophers, duchesses, thieves, beggars, rakes, shopkeeper artists, priests—in all some 300 different personages. Like Thackeray and Trollope, the two great English realists, and like Zola, the greatest of the naturalistic school of fiction, Balzac makes his characters reappear continuously in the different volumes of this bewildering series, until, by the iteration of no less than by the fidelity of the portraiture, the reader comes to believe in their reality. ‘The extraor- dinary feature of the work is that there is no repetition. Every character stands out endowed with its own distinct and positive individuality, and the profundity and accuracy of the great writer's knowledge of the human heart are astonishing. . . . He delineated the entire life of his time, extenuating nothing, glozing over nothing, but de- picting motive and action with minute fidelity to truth.’’"— Chambers’ Encyclopedia. If considering the purchase of a Balzac it would be well to note what American and French experts say above of the Barrie Edition, and what the world thinks of Balzac as aman and as a writer. “The greatest novelist in the world.""—/nternational Encyclo-| “Does not offend us with the Zolaistic coarseness of Shake-| “Has no peer ia the English tongue."—Rev. Dx, Cyrus A. pedis. speare.”"—The Dial, Chicago. | Banyo. “The greatest name in this century's literature of France."—| """* The master of masters. —The Spectator, London |S We'have Malzac’s works complete."—Dr. J. K. Hossenx, Encyclopedia Britannica. + Had more influence on moder fiction than any other writer.”* | Lidrarian, Minncapoiis Lube Library. His great work remains a roonument of genius and industr —The Athenaeum, London “He scales every beight and sounds every depth of human Appleton's American Cyclopadia ‘one in England whom we could place on the same level."— | character.”"—Anprew Lana. “His influence on literature has been deep and many-sided."— dinburgh Revi | ning of the great things that have followed since ia Chambers’ Encyclopadia. We must conclude by heartily recommending his works.""—| fictio vivian Dean HowEtts. «The colossus of contemporary literature.""—Larousse (French). | Dublin University Magazine sentially the novelist of the world."—Jutiaw Hawrnonee, St Amaziogly faithful pietures.— Alege, (German) Balzac bas written many books as pure as those of Jane Aus- Insight and power."—Hasitron Weicnt Ma “ Balzac holds the mirror up to nature.""—Life, New York, Chicago Tribune tor of Outlook and Mem of Letler?. + Far from immoral.” —Lippincott's Magasin ie painted men and women as he found them."—Besfon| _ “At the last, his (Malzac’s) name will be placed higher still than “Impossible to struggle with the fascination.""—The North | Evening Transcript Shakespeare.”"—Proresson Hany THURSTON Pack, Columbia American Review. More than moral. He was religious."—Rev. A. H. Terre. | University. “Halzac’s breadth, depth, strength, and fearlessness.""— The came next {in Stevenson's library] upon a compirte edition |‘ Profound observer of buman society and human passion.” — Atlantic Monthly. of Balzac, which had evidently been read with care."—Proressox | Jonx Larnnor Mortey, No effort is made to gild vice and render it seductive.”— Pry. “The conception ia of the very finest.""—Prorassox Groce Scribner's Magazine. ‘Balzac an immoral writer, . . . Nothing could be farther | Sarnrsunv, M.A. University af Edinburgh. “ Balzac’s ta ibe lives enzaged in a form of striving for a | from the truth."—Prorasson Joun Cowran Powys, of Odford ‘of worlls that constitute ia themsclves an entire litera- higher position."— he Nation, New York. University, England. MAtTHEW ARNOLD. “Allow me to add that your set is far and away the best translation there is of Balzac.""—Grorce W. Vanperpitr (Mfr. Vanderbilt bought four sets of the Barrie edition). GEORGE BARRIE & SONS, PUBLISHERS, 1313 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA MEDALS: 1876, Pautapetenta. 1878, Parts. 1880-1, Minourne. 1883, Viewn: 188, Paris, 1893, ‘Awarded Grand Prix’ and Gold Medal by the International Jury at Paris Exposition, 1900, Under auspices of the United States government, exhibited Hors Concourz at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904 Several descriptive pamphlets are issued: they will br sent on receipt of your name and address on thit margin. 37 comicbooks.com