I hope you will find the pleasure in reading Marie Claire that I found in translating it. I should like to say quite earnestly--and perhaps a little shamefacedly, because we hate saying these things out loud--that when I had read it I felt awed. The book had worked upon me. Do you remember the impression made on you by moonlight upon the snow in the country? You must be quite alone to feel it. The purity of it all makes you wish that you were a cleaner man or woman, and, till you rub shoulders with people again, you mean to try hard to be cleaner and better. Marie Claire made me feel just exactly like that. JOHN N. RAPHAEL.