Awarded the $1000 Pulitzer Prize by Columbia University as the outstanding American novel of 1921. “One of the best novels of the twentieth century.”--William Lyon Phelps. =SUMMER= “The Story of a New England community and of a girl’s life there. Mrs. Wharton has analyzed and vivified for us, with that sure artist’s touch that we know so well, a bit of life.”--New York Times. =THE REEF= “Mrs. Wharton has produced one of her most adroit and scintillant dissections of the human relation. She has made of Anna Leath an extraordinary study of awakening impulses in a woman.”--McClure’s Magazine. =THE MARNE= “Within its pages is concentrated much if not the whole of the meaning of the Marne both to France and America. Mrs. Wharton has never written a broader, keener criticism of life than this.”--New York Times. * * * * * =FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING= An extraordinarily keen study of the French people, for which the salient qualities of the Gallic spirit form a basis--taste, reverence, continuity, intellectual honesty. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY LONDON NEW YORK TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized or underlined text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Emboldened text is surrounded by equals signs: =bold=. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Archaic or variant spelling has been retained. In this edition, on page 118, a line was repeated and another line was omitted. The text has been corrected using the 1925 Grosset & Dunlap edition as a reference.