_The WORKS of VOLTAIRE_ _EDITION DE LA PACIFICATION_ _Limited to one thousand sets for America and Great Britain._ “_Between two servants of Humanity, who appeared eighteen hundred years apart, there is a mysterious relation. *    *    *    *    *    Let us say it with a sentiment of profound respect: JESUS WEPT: VOLTAIRE SMILED. Of that divine tear and of that human smile is composed the sweetness of the present civilization._” _VICTOR HUGO._ [Illustration: AT THIS INTERESTING MOMENT, AS MAY EASILY BE IMAGINED, WHO SHOULD COME IN BUT THE UNCLE] _EDITION DE LA PACIFICATION_ THE WORKS OF VOLTAIRE A CONTEMPORARY VERSION With Notes by Tobias Smollett, Revised and Modernized New Translations by William F. Fleming, and an Introduction by Oliver H. G. Leigh A CRITIQUE AND BIOGRAPHY BY THE RT. HON. JOHN MORLEY _FORTY-THREE VOLUMES_ ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT DESIGNS, COMPRISING REPRODUCTIONS OF RARE OLD ENGRAVINGS, STEEL PLATES, PHOTOGRAVURES, AND CURIOUS FAC-SIMILES VOLUME IV E. R. DuMONT PARIS : LONDON : NEW YORK : CHICAGO COPYRIGHT 1901 BY E. R. DUMONT OWNED by THE WERNER COMPANY AKRON, OHIO MADE BY THE WERNER COMPANY AKRON, OHIO VOLTAIRE ROMANCES IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. III. CONTENTS —————— I. ANDRÉ DES TOUCHES IN SIAM … 5 II. THE BLIND AS JUDGES OF COLOR … 13 III. THE CLERGYMAN AND HIS SOUL … 15 IV. A CONVERSATION WITH A CHINESE … 28 V. MEMNON THE PHILOSOPHER … 33 VI. PLATO’S DREAM … 42 VII. AN ADVENTURE IN INDIA … 47 VIII. BABABEC … 51 IX. ANCIENT FAITH AND FABLE … 56 X. THE TWO COMFORTERS … 61 XI. DIALOGUE BETWEEN MARCUS AURELIUS AND A RECOLLET FRIAR … 64 XII. DIALOGUE BETWEEN A BRAHMIN AND A JESUIT … 70 XIII. DIALOGUES BETWEEN LUCRETIUS AND POSIDONIUS … 76 XIV. DIALOGUE BETWEEN A CLIENT AND HIS LAWYER … 95 XV. DIALOGUE BETWEEN MADAME DE MAINTENON AND MDLLE. DE L’ENCLOS … 101 XVI. DIALOGUE BETWEEN A SAVAGE AND A BACHELOR OF ARTS … 108