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Title: A painter of dreams, and other biographical studies
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Stirling, Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina Pickering
Subjects: Great Britain -- Biography England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, John Lane New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Axs Stirling has given us in her own inimitablesetting another banquet of anecdotes—a feast of good stories, as rich andvaried as those contained in Coke of Norfolk, etc. Westminster Gazette.—Lively and interesting are the pictures ofbygone Society in town and country presented in these two volumes.The letters of Lady Elizabeth are as delightful and piquant as any in thecollection. These volumes, which are extremely well illustrated, giveone of the most instructive and entertaining pictures of social Englandthat we possess. Daily Telegraph. — Simply packed with human interest and over-flowing with life and character. Mrs Stirling shows herself a remarkablyable memoir writer. Full of charm and interest, these volumes shouldenjoy as great a popularity as did her earlier works. JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, LONDON, W.
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AN APPRECIATION OFANATOLE FRANCE By WILLIAM J. LOCKE The personal note in Anatole Frances novels is never more surelyfelt than when he himself, in some disguise, is either the pro-tagonist or the raisonneur of the drama. It is the personality ofMonsieur Bergeret that sheds its sunset kindness over the sordidphases of French political and social life presented in the famousseries. It is the charm of Sylvestre Bonnard that makes an idyllof the story of his crime. It is Doctor Trublet in HisioireComique who gives humanity to the fantastic adventure. It isMaitre Jerome Coignard whom we love unreservedly in LaRotisserie de la Reine Pedauque. No writer is more personal.No writer views human affairs from a more impersonal standpoint.He hovers over the world like a disembodied spirit, wise with thelearning of all times and with the knowledge of all hearts that havebeaten, yet not so serene and unfleshly as not to have pre-served a certain tricksiness, a capacity for puckish laughter whichecho

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