Produced by Chris Curnow, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) DOWNEY & CO.'S _NEW PUBLICATIONS_. =MEDICINE AND THE MIND.= Translated from the French of MAURICE DE FLEURY by S. B. COLLINS, M.D. 16_s._ *** This work has been crowned by the French Academy. =OLD LONDON TAVERNS.= By EDWARD CALLOW. Illustrated. 6_s._ =THE GOOD QUEEN CHARLOTTE.= By PERCY FITZGERALD. With a Photogravure reproduction of Gainsborough's Portrait and other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 10_s._ 6_d._ =THE LIFE OF JOHN MYTTON.= By NIMROD. An entirely new edition printed from new type. With 20 Coloured Plates reproduced from Alken's Drawings. 42_s._ net. =GOSSIP OF THE CENTURY.= By Mrs. PITT BYRNE. 4 vols. with numerous Illustrations. 42_s._ =THE ACTOR AND HIS ART.= By STANLEY JONES. Crown 8vo. With Cover designed by H. MITCHELL. 3_s._ 6_d._ LEGENDS OF THE BASTILLE [Illustration: MODEL OF THE BASTILLE, CARVED IN ONE OF THE STONES OF THE FORTRESS. _One of these models, made by the instructions of the architect Palloy, was sent to the chief-town of every department in France._] Legends of the Bastille BY FRANTZ FUNCK-BRENTANO _WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VICTORIEN SARDOU_ AUTHORISED TRANSLATION BY GEORGE MAIDMENT WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON DOWNEY & CO. LIMITED 1899 BIBLIOGRAPHY _Legendes et Archives de la Bastille._ Paris: Hachette et Cie., 1898; second edition, 1899. Crowned by the French Academy. _Die Bastille in der Legende und nach historischen Documenten._ German translation by Oscar Marschall von Bieberstein. Breslau: Schottlaender, 1899. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE In his own entertaining way, Mr. Andrew Lang has recently been taking the scientific historian to task, and giving him a very admirable lesson on "history as she ought to be wrote." But though the two professors to whom he mainly addresses himself are Frenchmen, it would be doing an injustice to France to infer that she is the _alma mater_ of the modern dryasdust. The exact contrary is the case: France is rich in historical writers like the Comte d'Haussonville, M. de Maulde la Clavière, M. Gaston Boissier, to name only a few, who know how to be accurate without being dull.