DEDICATED,
In remembrance of many pleasant and instructive hours spent in his society, to the sculptor
AUGUSTE RODIN,
whose statue of Balzac, with its fine, synthetic portraiture, first tempted the author to write this book.
PASSY, PARIS, 1910.
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