New York The Review of Reviews Company

1907

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Maupassant Voltaire
Mille Alarcon
Adam CAPUANA
ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN apuleius
Balzac Pliny, the younger

[Illustration:  “Through a Mist in the Depths of the Looking-Glass.”  To illustrate “The Horla,” by Guy de Maupassant]

Table of Contents

Henri Rene Albert Guy de maupassant (1850-93). 
    The Necklace
    The Man with the Pale Eyes
    An Uncomfortable Bed
    Ghosts
    Fear
    The Confession
    The Horla

PIERRE MILLE.  The Miracle of Zobeide

VILLIERS DE L’ISLE ADAM.  The Torture by Hope

ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN (1822-99)—­(1826-90). 
    The Owl’s Ear
    The Invisible Eye
    The Waters of Death

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850). 
    Melmoth Reconciled
    The Conscript

JEAN FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (1694-1778).  Zadig the Babylonian

PEDRO DE ALARCON.  The Nail

LUIGI CAPUANA (1839-00).  The Deposition

LUCIUS APULEIUS (Second Century).  The Adventure of the Three Robbers

PLINY, THE YOUNGER (First Century).  Letter to Sura

French—­Italian—­Spanish—­Latin Mystery Stories

HENRI RENE ALBERT GUY DE MAUPASSANT

The Necklace

She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a mistake of destiny, born in a family of clerks.  She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, wedded, by any rich and distinguished man; and she let herself be married to a little clerk at the Ministry of Public Instruction.

She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was as unhappy as though she had really fallen from her proper station; since with women there is neither caste nor rank; and beauty, grace, and charm act instead of family and birth.  Natural fineness, instinct for what is elegant, suppleness of wit, are the sole hierarchy, and make from women of the people the equals of the very greatest ladies.