Part 42

“Mr. Frost has done truer work about New England than anybody—except Miss Wilkins.”

New York Evening Sun:

“The poet had the insight to trust the people with the book of the people and the people replied ‘Man, what is your name?’... He forsakes utterly the claptrap of pastoral song, classical or modern.... His is soil stuff, not mock bucolics.”

Boston Transcript:

“The first poet for half a century to express New England life completely with a fresh, original and appealing way of his own.”

Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“The more you read the more you are held, and when you return a few days later to look up some passage that has followed you about, the better you find the meat under the simple unpretentious form. The London Times caught that quality when it said: ‘Poetry burns up out of it, as when a faint wind breathes upon smouldering embers.’... That is precisely the effect....”

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A BOY’S WILL Mr. Frost’s First Volume of Poetry

The Academy (London):

“We have read every line with that amazement and delight which are too seldom evoked by books of modern verse.”

NORTH OF BOSTON. Cloth. $2.35 net. NORTH OF BOSTON. Leather. $2.00 net. A BOY’S WILL. Cloth. 75 cents net.

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=JEAN-CHRISTOPHE=

=By ROMAIN ROLLAND=

Translated from the French by GILBERT CANNAN. In three volumes, each $1.50 net.

This great trilogy, the life story of a musician, at first the sensation of musical circles in Paris, has come to be one of the most discussed books among literary circles in France, England and America.

Each volume of the American edition has its own individual interest, can be understood without the other, and comes to a definite conclusion.

The three volumes with the titles of the French volumes included are:

=JEAN-CHRISTOPHE= Dawn—Morning—Youth—Revolt

=JEAN-CHRISTOPHE IN PARIS= The Market Place—Antoinette—The House

=JEAN-CHRISTOPHE: JOURNEY’S END= Love and Friendship—The Burning Bush—The New Dawn

Some Noteworthy Comments

“‘Hats off, gentlemen—a genius.’... One may mention ‘Jean-Christophe’ in the same breath with Balzac’s ‘Lost Illusions’; it is as big as that.... It is moderate praise to call it with Edmund Gosse ’the noblest work of fiction of the twentieth century.’... A book as big, as elemental, as original as though the art of fiction began today.... We have nothing comparable in English literature....”—Springfield Republican.

“If a man wishes to understand those devious currents which make up the great, changing sea of modern life, there is hardly a single book more illustrative, more informing and more inspiring.”—Current Opinion.

“Must rank as one of the very few important works of fiction of the last decade. A vital compelling work. We who love it feel that it will live.”—Independent.

“The most momentous novel that has come to us from France, or from any other European country, in a decade.”—Boston Transcript.

A 32-page booklet about Romain Rolland and Jean-Christophe, with portraits and complete reviews, on request.