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GEORGE: 



THE PLANTER OF THE ISLE OF FRANCE 



BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS, 



Author of " The Count of Monte-Cristo," " Genevieve," Etc., Etc. 



Price, Fifty Cents. 



Since the time of Scott, the department of historical novel writing has been 

 an important part of the literature of the world. All that the generality of the 

 world know about certain characters, who have played an important part in its 

 history, is derived from them. They give us our ideas about the habits of the 

 people and the events of the times. The James I. and Louis IX., whom we 

 know, are the James and Louis of Scott. They supply the place of History and 

 Biography. When well written, they are an eminent aid to the scholar. They 

 fling the romance of individual life around the details of the historian, and im- 

 press upon the mind particulars otherwise forgotten. 



In the novel before us we detect nearly all these great characteristics. " George 

 the Planter" is a tale of the sunny, luxurious Isle of France, in the Indian Ocean. 

 We have read " Indiana," in which the rich and most surpassing beauty of that 

 lovely country is described. Dumas has finished the picture, by giving its history 

 in a dramatic fiction well worthy a niche beside the magnificent story termed the 

 " Count of Monte-Cristo." 



THE TWO DIANAS ; 



OR, 



The Son of a Count and the Daughter of a King. 



Price, Seventy-five Cents. 



In the Two Dianas, Dumas revels among the stirring incidents of a period 

 wherein a Montmorency, a Coligny, a Guise, and a Catherine de Medicis flour- 

 ished. The history of these times is a history of blood — a succession of plots 

 and counterplots the like to which the world never saw. The author marvel- 

 lously blends the details of these occurrences with the softer but not less passion- 

 ate scenes that arise from the influence of the gentler sex. From deeds of arms 

 he passes to love — from ambition to soft dalliance — with an inspiration and grace 

 that show his warm blood circulating with a magical power. One knows not 

 which most to admire in Dumas — the exquisite touch of his imaginative pictures, 

 the brilliance of his style and description, or the pure sentiment of reflection, 

 which pervade his well-balanced dialogue. 



