CHAPTER X.

LESSONS IN ART AND SCIENCE 50

CONFERENCE

[EXTRACT FROM A PLAN FOUND AMONGST GUSTAVE FLAUBERT'S PAPERS INDICATING THE CONCLUSION OF THE WORK.] 94

THE DANCE OF DEATH 1-14

RABELAIS 1-12

PREFACE TO THE LAST SONGS (_Posthumous Poems_) OF LOUIS BOUILHET 1-22

LETTER TO THE MUNICIPALITY OF ROUEN 1-15

SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE

INTIMATE REMEMBRANCES OF GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 1-42

CORRESPONDENCE 43-135

ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

"THEN, HAPLY, FAITHFUL ONE, WEARY AS I, THOU FINALLY SHALT SEEK SOME PRECIPICE FROM WHICH TO CAST THYSELF." (See page 6, _The Dance of Death_) _Frontispiece_

BOUVARD AND PÉCUCHET

BOUVARD AND PÉCUCHET CARRIED THEM OFF 43

THE DANCE OF DEATH

NERO: YET, I AM LOTH TO DIE} DEATH: DIE, THEN! } 7

BOUVARD AND PÉCUCHET (_CONTINUED._)