WORKS BY HECTOR MALOT

Edited with Explanatory Notea and Qamprehenaive Frenoh-Engliah Vooabulariea, for the use of Schools and Private Students.

H. llAlot't obaraoten an alwayi drawn with lifelike fidelity. Toa can aee the people be deplete, and feel that yon are living with them in much the aame way as yon do when reading the works of 0. Dickena. Malot, like Dickena, loves to depict the habits and costoms of the lower classes ; both these great writers possess a keen sense of the humorous element in humanity. In no line of writing does H. Malot more distinctly score than in his delightful tales for children. They are fbll of delicate touches that cannot fail to interest the youthful mind.

Cap! et sa Troupe. Épisode de 'Sana Famille.' Edited by F. Tabyer, m. a. 218 pages. Grown 8yo. Cloth, Is. 6d. *The story throughout is so attractive as to give the pupil a close interest in what he is reading, and to remove a good deal of the feeling that in spelling out a translation he is performing a task.'— Freeman's 2>ul>2in /oumoZ.

L'Ile Déserte. Épisode de ' En FamUle.' Edited by E. L. Naftel,

Modem Language Examiner to the Uniyersities of Oxford and

Cambridge, eto. 178 pages. Grown 8to. Cloth, Is. 6d.

* Deals with the amusing adventures of a young girl who is left an orphan and

gradually works her way through the stormy battle of life. The characters are

graphieslly sketched,. and the young heroine's adventures on her little island are

botui amusing and instructive. They will be particularly acceptable to girls, for

whom this episode is calculated to form a most desirable reading-book. The author's

eleganthr chosen language in descriptive passages will give the student a model for

writing French prose as it should be written.'— From Editor' i Pr^fitM,

Remi et ses Amis. Épisode de 'Sans Famille.' Edited by J. Maubiox Ret, B. es II, French Lecturer at University Extension College, Beading. 196 pages. Crown Syo. Clol^, Is. 6d. 'This episode commences at the death of Yitalis, who bought Bemi from Barberin. The poor boy is adopted by a kind-hearted gardener, and Bemi finds in his children brothers and sisters. But disaster befalls l£em, and Bemi is compelled once more to resume his wandering life with the Ikithful OapL He meets liattia, a poor fellowsufferer like himself; they assodate^they succeed in saving money enough to buy a. cow as a present for Mère Barberin. The narrative of the purchase and bringing home of the cow is most amusing. Bemi learns that after all he is not without relatives, and that they are making efforts to find him. He starts again, in consequence, with liattia for Paris, and on his way, spends a few days in tke Nièvre with Use— his beloved Lise— the gardener^s poor dumb child. To her he imparts all his dreams of fhture wealth, in which she fuUy shares, and in imagination already sees Bemi coming to fetch her in a coach and four.'— From Editor' i Introduction,

Rem! en Angleterre. Épisode de 'Sans Famille.' Edited by E. L. Naftel. 210 pages. Crown 8vo. Cloth, Is. 6d. In the present episode— <a sequel to Bemi a set Amis), the plot is admirably worked out. Barberin writes to his wife and gives her the address of the London lawyers who have charge of the case. After reading this letter Bemi decides on going to London. The reader will be able to easily follow the episode which begins at this point, and will have little difficulty in surmising that the chief rascal Milligan, and his accomplice, DriscoU. the London thief, are suitably dealt with; that Bemi eventually marries Lise, io whom he was always fondly attached, and that the dream of fetching her in ' a coach^md-four ' is virtually, if not absolutely realised.

Sous Terre. %>isode de * Sans Famille. ' Edited by A. Dupuis, B. A. , LecturerinfrenchatKinc's College. 150 pp. Cr. 8yo. Cloth, Is. 6d. ' A thrilling account of the floodmg of a coal mine, flrom which only six out of a hundred and twenty miners were rescued, after having been confined in a narrow space for fourteen days. The description of the mine and the various Incidents of the disaster, including the sufferings, alternating feelings, conversation, and behaviour of the men, brings the whole scene vividly bofore the mind, and keeps up an intense interest till the happy consummation is reached.'— ^tA^nceum. Sur Mer. Épisode de 'Romain Kalbris.* Edited by H. Testabd, B. A., B.D., etc. 260 pages. Crown Svo. Qoth, Is. 6d. An account of the indomitable eneisy of Bomain Kalbris, who, through his love for adventures and ioumeys to distant lands and his cravings for ttie seafaring life in which his (lather and other relations had found an untimely death, is led to leave first bis home and afterwards that of his uneli*

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