illustrated with photogravures and engravings from paintings by Maurice Leloir [and others]

v. 1-2. The Count of Monte Cristo.--
v. 3-4. The two Dianas.--
v. 5-6. The page of the Duke of Savoy.--
v. 7. Margaret de Valois.--
v. 8. Chicot the jester.--
v. 9. The forty-five guardsmen.--
v. 10. The three guardsmen.--
v. 11. Twenty years after.--
v. 12. The vicomte de Bragelonne.--
v. 13. Ten years later.--
v. 14. Louise de la Valliere.--
v. 15. The man in the iron mask.--
v. 16. The Chevalier d'Harmental.--
v. 17. The regent's daughter.--
v. 18. Joseph Balsamo.--
v. 19. The memoirs of a physician.--
v. 20. The queen's necklace.--
v. 21. Taking the Bastile.--
v. 22. The Countess de Charny.--
v. 23. The Chevalier de Maison Rouge.--
v. 24-25. The whites and the blues.

THE TWO DIANAS CHAPTER I a count's son and a king's daughter IT WAS on the5tli of May, 1551, that a young man, aboal eighteen years of age, and a woman about forty, issuing out of a house of humble appearance, traversed together the little village of Montgommery, which lies near Auge. The young man was of that beautiful Norman race, distinguished by their chestnut hair, blue eyes, white teeth, and rosy lips; he had that soft, fresh complexion, which occasionally takes something of power from the beauty of the Northern men, making it almost womanly. His figure, however, was both strong and flexible; he was elegantly dressed in a pourpoint of deep violet cloth, with embroideries of the same color; his boots of black leather, mounting above the knees, were such as were then worn by young pages; and a velvet cap, set a little on one side, and shaded by a white plume, covered a brow indicating at once firmness and sweet temper. His horse, whose bridle was over his arm, followed him. T

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