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Zola's speech and Dumas' letter in full— the earlier versiou has been followed.

Grateful acknowledgment is due to the Gaulois for per- mission to reproduce Dumas' letter ; to M. E. Fasquelle, of the Biblioth6que Charpentier, for permission to reproduce Zola's speech ; and to Mr. E. J. W. Warren for allowing his excollcnt translation of Tolstoy's French essay to be followed iu a number of passages in the present translation.