# The House of Mirth/Adverts

BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON
PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
She is to-day the most promising figure we have. To-morrow is hers. How far she will go it is hard to tell. But with her worldly wisdom, her keen insight, her wit and her fancy, and, above all, her invariable good taste, there is no knowing what the future has in store.—The New York Evening Sun.
[8vo, $2.50 net. Postage 17 cents]
Italian Backgrounds
Illustrated by Peixotto
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Belongs in that small class of books of observation which are also books of artistic and spiritual interpretation; which not only describe places and monuments, but convey an impression of peoples, a sense of society, with the elusive atmosphere in which everything of historical or artistic value is seen by those who have the gift of sight.—The Outlook.
Through this traveller's story runs a fine thread of scholarship, of savoir faire, of cosmopolitanism, not easily to be matched in travel-literature. The reader's pulse quickens with an artistic pleasure such as might be aroused by a novel by Thackeray or George Eliot, or an essay by Matthew Arnold or Lowell. The book has what we call distinction of style, as impossible to resist as to define.—The Dial.
[12mo, $1.50]
Sanctuary
Illustrations by W. Appleton Clark
This is a striking little book, striking in its simplicity and penetration, its passion and restraint.—London Times.
Vivid in its portrayal of a half-tragic situation.—The Dial.
It is a conception of great strength . . . it ought to arouse much thought.—The Interior.
[12mo, $1.25]
The Touchstone
The story is distinctly able in its grasp and penetration.—The Outlook.
Its characters are real, their motives and actions thoroughly human. And the author's art is sufficient to bring out the strength of every situation.—The Argonaut.
[12mo, $1.50]
The Descent of Man
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A Venetian Night's Entertainment
It is, of course, the extraordinary directness with which Mrs. Wharton's probe goes to the spot under inspection, the deftness with which she is able to bring to the light of day what we had hidden even from ourselves, that account for the admiration with which we regard her short stories.—London Academy.
Sixth Edition
[12mo $1.50]
The Greater Inclination
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Between these stories and those of the ordinary entertaining sort there is a great gulf fixed.—The Dial.
[12mo, $1.50]
Crucial Instances
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The Confessional
Tragedy and comedy, pathos and humor, are mingled in these pages of brilliant writing and splendid imagination.—Philadelphia Press.
[12mo, $1.50]
The Valley of Decision
25th Thousand
Coming in the midst of an epoch overcrowded with works of fiction, "The Valley of Decision" stands out giant-like above its surroundings. It stands, indeed, almost without a rival in the modern literary world, and there can be little doubt that it places Mrs. Wharton at once side by side with the greatest novelists of the day.—Boston Evening Transcript.
Its author has now proved her title to take place among the foremost novelists now living.—Baltimore Sun.
In seeking comparisons for it, one can name only the masters in fiction. It leaves one eager for Mrs. Wharton's next work.—Kansas City Star.
[12mo, $1.25 net]
The Joy of Living
(Es lebe das Leben)
A play in five acts, by Hermann Sudermann. Translated from the German by Edith Wharton.
[Large 8vo, $2.50 net]
The Decoration of Houses
With 56 full-page illustrations, by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr.