Honor� De Balzac in Twenty-Five Volumes, Vol. 1 of 25 At the Sign of the Cat and Racket; The Sceaux Ball; The Purse; The Vendetta; Madame Firmiani; A Daughter of Eve; Letters of Two Brides (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Honor� De Balzac in Twenty-Five Volumes, Vol. 1 of 25: At the Sign of the Cat and Racket; The Sceaux Ball; The Purse; The Vendetta; Madame Firmiani; A Daughter of Eve; Letters of Two Brides

IN the very interesting preface, dated July, 1842, which Balzac prefixed to the first collection of the Com�die Eu maine, he endeavors, naturally enough, to represent the di vision into Scenes de la Vie Parisienne, etc., as a rational and reasoned one. Although not quite arbitrary, it was of course to a great extent determined by considerations which were not those of design; and we did not require the positive testimony which we find in the Letters to tell us that in the author's view, as well as in our own, not a few of the stories might have been shifted over from one division to another, and have filled their place just as well in the other as in the one.

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