Ten Tales, by François Coppée. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1890.
Translator: Walter Learned
Illustrations by: Albert E. Sterner
Introduction by: Brander Matthews
I really enjoyed working on this book. The stories, as Mr Matthews indicates, are impressionistic of French life (suitable for works translated in the late 19th century, eh?). The illustrations are amazingly appropriate — unlike many illustrated books of the period, these drawings were commissioned to go with the stories — and they really add to the characterizations and situations depicted in the tales.
