Julie persisted in her silence. Her heart had grown heavy; she began, for the first time, to have a presentiment that her great happiness was not to be all sunshine, that storms were lowering on the horizon which the first gust of wind might roll across the sky, and cause to break upon the heads of herself and her lover. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Rosebush.] [Footnote 2: Schöpfer--creator--a pun somewhat less irreverent to German than it would sound to English ears.] [Footnote 3: The Germans say "to get the basket," as we say "to get the mitten."--Translator.] [Footnote 4: Of course a play on _Schafskopf_ (sheep's-head), the German phrase for a stupid fool.--_Translator_.] END OF VOL. I. SAMUEL BROHL AND COMPANY. From the French of VICTOR CHERBUUEZ. _Paper_, 60 _Cents_; _Cloth_, $1.00. * * * _From the New York World._ "The book is one of the best of even Cherbuliez's novels. No one needs to be told that this is high praise.... Nowhere has the ideal adventurer been portrayed with more skill, more art, more genius even, than Cherbuliez has portrayed him in this novel." _From the New York Evening Post._ "The story illustrates anew what has been illustrated a thousand times, namely, that in the art of story-telling the French are masters, whose skill we English-speaking folk can never learn. It is not as novelists that they excel us, for there are English novels enough to contradict that; but as deft-handed story-tellers and deft-handed playwrights the French are much superior to any other race." _From the London Examiner._ "M. Cherbuliez is a very clever novelist, certainly one of the cleverest of the second rank of living French novelists. A new novel from his pen is always something to be looked forward to with pleasure; and if of late his novels have not been so remarkable as formerly, they are always exceedingly readable. But 'Samuel Brohl et Cie' is more than merely readable; it is as good in its way as anything that M. Cherbuliez has ever done." _From the New York Express._ "The Appletons have commenced the publication of a 'Collection of Foreign Authors,' which is destined, we think, to be a success, and which certainly will be a success if its forthcoming volumes are as good as its first one, which is entitled 'Samuel Brohl & Company,' and is by that adroit story-teller, Victor Cherbuliez. We do not intend to give away the plot of this remarkable novel, which is a marvel of ingenuity from beginning to end." _From the Philadelphia Item._ "'Samuel Brohl & Company' is a powerful work, possessing a strong, skillfully-constructed plot, and is admirably elaborated in all its details." GÉRARD'S MARRIAGE: A NOVEL.