power; it reveals with a quality enchaining the attention, the
interwoven web of human revelations, romantic from their very
prosaicness. The life of one in other’s minds—the “social
consciousness” about which the sociologists have developed
abstruse theories, is here portrayed explicitly, with a
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suggested by the fact that the “Nobody” about whom the action
revolves dies in the second chapter. Though fiction, it will
supply convincing arguments to believers in life after death. It
is not only a masterpiece of literary art, but might well be used
as the concrete text of the mind of the crowd. Translated from
the French by Desmond MacCarthy and Sydney Waterlow.
All of these may be obtained from booksellers or from the
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publications of 1914 may be obtained.
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The Pastor’s Wife
By the Author of “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”
A delicious and timely piece of satire on German and English ways
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A Soldier of the Legion
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The Grand Assize
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Series of Plays
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The Art of the Low Countries
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