ALEXANDRE DUMAS' GREAT WORK. 



THE CONSCKIPT; 



A Tale of the Empire. 

 BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS. 



In one beautiful 12mo. vol. of over 400 pages. Price $1. 



Since the appearance of " The Count of Monte Cristo," the author has written 

 no work equal to this in brilliancy and power. It is essentially a story of peas 

 ant life. All the phases of existance in the cottage-homes of France ; the domes- 

 tic misery produced by the conscription and the terrors of the dreadful campaign 

 of the first invasion of France, terminating in the first occupation of Paris by the 

 Allies, the terrible hattles in the east of France, and the arrival of Napoleon like a 

 thunderbolt to disturb the brief triumph of Absoluteism are most graphically por" 

 trayed. Since de Saintine and Chateaubriand's romances, nothing superior has 

 been written in the French language. 



EDITORIAL OPINIONS. 

 From the Commercial Advertiser. 



" The present work is quite worthy of the translator's remark, that ' since the appear- 

 ance of Picciola this is one of the most chaste, and at the same time most interesting 

 stories, which have been printed in the French language.' The original title was ' dieu 

 et diable : conscience l' innocent ;' but the translator has taken the liberty to give 

 the story a name, which, while it is equally applicable, is more consultant with American 

 ideas of propriety. No novel of greater power to' attract and retain attention has been 

 laid on our table for some time." 



From the Charleston Mercury. 



" The story is one of the most touching of all the author's productions. Taking the 

 Empire of Napoleon, as it was, hovering on the verge of its final catastrophe, it exhibits 

 the terrible exactions of war on the peasantry, in their extremest form. The characters 

 are lowly, but full of interest." 



From the Home Journal. 



" The scene of the tale lies chiefly in a French village, during the last years of Bona- 



§ aire's reign, and the actors are nearly all of the peasant class— simple, earnest characters — 

 rawn with the skill of an artist, and abounding in traits of pine, natural life. It presents 

 a most delightful picture of rural life in France. The volume is full of incident and 

 adventure." 



From the Hartford C our ant. 



" This novel, of the prolific French author, is, as usual, exciting, and intensely inte- 

 resting. It describes the life of a conscript under the Empire of Napoleon, and is a good 

 picture of the period." 



From the New- York Tribune. 



" It is free from the peculiar features which vitiate so large a portion of the lighter 

 French literature, and may safely be recommended for family reading." 



From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. 



"'The Conscript' is a novel marked on every page with the characteristics of this 

 great writer. It is a story of the times of the great Napoleon, and full of interesting in- 

 cidents connected with the camp and battle-field." 



STRINGER & TOWNSEND, Publishers, 



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