"This book is realistic. Some say that it is brutally so. But the realism is that of Flaubert, and not of Zola. There is no plain speaking for the sake of plain speaking. Every detail is justified in the fact that it illuminates either the motives or the actions of the man and woman who here stand revealed. It is deadly true. The author holds the mirror up to nature, and the reader, as he sees his own experiences duplicated in passage after passage, has something of the same sensation as all of us know on the first reading of George Meredith's 'Egoist.' Reading these pages is like being out in the country on a dark night in a storm. Suddenly a flash of lightning comes and every detail of your surroundings is revealed."--_Review of "The Triumph of Death" in the New York Evening Sun._ The volumes published are as follows. Each 1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, $1.75 THE ROMANCES OF THE ROSE THE CHILD OF PLEASURE (Il Piacere) THE INTRUDER (L'Innocente) THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH (Il Trionfo della Morte) THE ROMANCES OF THE LILY THE MAIDENS OF THE ROCKS (Le Vergini delle Rocce) THE ROMANCES OF THE POMEGRANATE THE FLAME OF LIFE (Il Fuoco) End of Project Gutenberg's The Triumph of Virginia Dale, by John Francis, Jr.