Contents A Piece of Bread By Francois Coppee The Elixir of Life By Honore De Balzac The Age For Love By Paul Bourget Mateo Falcone By Prosper Merimee The Mirror By Catulle Mendes My Nephew Joseph By Ludovic Halevy A Forest Betrothal By Erckmann-chatrian Zadig the Babylonian By Francois Marie Arouet De Voltaire Abandoned By Guy De Maupassant The Guilty Secret By Paul De Kock Jean Monette By Eugene Francois Vidocq Solange By Alexandre Dumas The Birds in the Letter-box By Rene Bazin Jean Gourdon's Four Days By Emile Zola Baron De Trenck By Clemence Robert The Passage of the Red Sea By Henry Murger The Woman and the Cat By Marcel Prevost Gil Blas and Dr. Sangrado By Alain Rene Le Sage A Fight With A Cannon By Victor Hugo Tonton By A. Cheneviere The Last Lesson By Alphonse Daudet Croisilles By Alfred De Musset The Vase of Clay By Jean Aicard