WITH FORTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DESIGNS BY MAURICE LELOIR, ENGRAVED ON WOOD BY F. NOEL, AND A PREFACE BY R. VALLERY-RADOT “Good, amiable Nodier,” are the words by which the world, apart from scholars, characterizes Charles Nodier. He is portrayed with a flowered vest, and a frock-coat with great lapels, finished by one of those collars which, by an easy play upon words, are called _les cols (l’école) des vieillards_. Nodier’s collar, which turned up slightly at the points in a Prudhommesque manner, touched the corners of his refined, kindly mouth; but it is difficult immediately to associate the remembrance of certain books with this 1835 face, for time obliterates everything.…
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