"The author's 'round-about' chapters are as animated as they are varied and sympathetic, for few Englishmen have the French _verve_ like Mr. Sala, or so light a touch on congenial subjects. He has stores of out-of-the-way information, a very many-sided gift of appreciation, with a singularly tenacious memory, and on subjects like those in his present work he is at his best."--_The Times._ "Most amusing letters they are, with clever little pictures scattered so profusely through the solid volume that it would be difficult to prick the edges with a pin at any point without coming upon one or more. Few writers can rival Mr. Sala's fertility of illustration and ever ready command of lively comment."--_Daily News._ "'Paris Herself Again' furnishes a happy illustration of the attractiveness of Mr. Sala's style and the fertility of his resources. For those who do and those who do not know Paris these volumes contain a fund of instruction and amusement."--_Saturday Review._ "This book is one of the most readable that has appeared for many a day. Few Englishmen know so much of old and modern Paris as Mr. Sala. Endowed with a facility to extract humour from every phase of the world's stage, and blessed with a wondrous store of recondite lore, he outdoes himself when he deals with a city like Paris that he knows so well, and that affords such an opportunity for his pen."--_Truth._ "'Paris Herself Again' is infinitely more amusing than most novels, and will give you information which you can turn to advantage, and innumerable anecdotes for the dinner-table and the smoking-room. There is no style so chatty and so unwearying as that of which Mr. Sala is a master."--_The World._ ZOLA'S POWERFUL REALISTIC NOVELS. _In Crown 8vo, price 6s. each._ PIPING HOT! ("POT-BOUILLE.") _Translated from the 63rd French edition. Illustrated with Sixteen Page Engravings by French Artists._ NANA: TRANSLATED WITHOUT ABRIDGMENT FROM THE 127TH FRENCH EDITION. _Illustrated with Twenty-four Tinted Page Engravings, by French Artists._ [Illustration: THE ARRIVAL OF THE ELEVEN YOUNG MEN AT NANA'S EVENING PARTY.] Mr. HENRY JAMES on "NANA." "A novelist with a system, a passionate conviction, a great plan--incontestable attributes of M. Zola--is not now to be easily found in England or the United States, where the story-teller's art is almost exclusively feminine, is mainly in the hands of timid (even when very accomplished) women, whose acquaintance with life is severely restricted, and who are not conspicuous for general views. The novel, moreover, among ourselves, is almost always addressed to young unmarried ladies, or at least always assumes them to be a large part of the novelist's public.