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 grim humor. "One of the most interesting literary studies of crime since Dostoieffsky's Crime and Punishment."—Chicago Evening Post.

FOR A NIGHT. A novelette by Emile Zola. Translated from the French by Alison M. Lederer. 75 cents net. Postage, 10 cents. The imaginative realism, the poetic psychology, of this story of the abnormal Thérèse who kills her lover; of the simple minded Julien who becomes an accessory after the fact for love of her, and finally "let himself fall" into the river, having first dropped the body of Colombel over, are gripping and intense. The masochism at the basis of the love of Thérèse and Colombel, resulting in the murder, is depicted with won-