Author: Leigh Gregor, B.A. and Ph.D, McGill University,
Title: La Mare au Diable.
Description: Boston, Ginn & Co, (1903). Fair hardback, green binding with light green lettering. Dedicated to those teachers of modern languages, who hold that slovenly and unidiomatic translation is worse than a waste of. time. Henry James has the happiest phrases to describe this work, ".noble and imperturbable", "a grand felicity of expression." Other critics called it a "milky abundance". She wrote, without effort and without having passed through tentative, imitatory stges, never erasing, never halting, ream upon ream of eloquent ardent, ample beautiful prose". Flaubert called her "an old-fashioned inn-clock troubadour ever piping a tale of true lovers." She accepted the appelationtroubadour. James calls it "artless and archaic." "George Sand found it easier to idealize the real than to realize the ideal." Edge wear, owner name and jottings, handmade tabs for vocabulary index.

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