^_ : I THE GREAT FRENCH WRITERS BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE reat JFrencj) MADAME DE SfiVIGNfi . . BY GASTON BOISSIER. GEORGE SAND BY E. CARD. BY ALBERT SOREL.MONTESQUIEU VICTOR COUSIN BY SIMON.JULES TURGOT BY LEON SAY. THIERS BY PAUL DE REMUSAT. MADAME DE BY ALBERTSTAEL ... SOREL. BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE BY ARVEDE BARINE. OTHER VOLUMES IN PREPARATION. in a volume.Price, $1.00Uniform style. ceatClje jtoncj) DEBERNARDIN ST. PIERRE BY ARVEDE BARINE TRANSLATED BY E. GORDONJ. WITH A PREFACE BY AUGUSTIN BIRRELL CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG AND COMPANY 1893 CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. YOUTH YEARS OF TRAVEL i II. PERIOD OF UNCERTAINTY VOYAGE TO THE ISLE OF FRANCE ACQUAINTANCE WITH ROUS-; J. J. THESEAU CRISIS . .. .'; 42 "THE ETUDES DEIII. LA NATURE" 87 IV. PAUL AND VIRGINIA 149 V. WORKS OF His OLD AGE THE Two MARRIAGES DEATH OF BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE His LITERARY INFLUENCE 179 2501301 PREFACE. HTHE life of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is so unusual, * so so and that theinteresting, suggestive amusing, of need not of thegrumpiest Anglo-Saxons complain Writers wouldfact that no series of Great French be which did not contain the name of the authorcomplete " " " of Paul and Even heirsShakespeare'sVirginia." must the of other nations about theiraccept judgment own authors. Our is to a verdictduty comprehend we are to Dorian aspowerless upset.