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  Mr. Paul's Translation of Huysmans' last great novel.

  En Route

  By J. K. HUYSMANS. Translated, with a prefatory note, by C. KEGANPAUL. Second edition. Crown 8vo, $1.50.

  We are inclined to think it not only the greatest novel of the day, butone of the most important books of our quarter of the century.--TheBookman (extract from five-page review).

  The Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, in a letter to the translator, says: "Itplaces the claim of the 'Route' through mysticism higher, I think, thanany other book I have read; and by this fact alone it imposes modestyand reserve upon all critics from outside and from a distance."