The Fruit of the Tree

by Edith Wharton

  +--------------------------------------------------------------+| || BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON || || PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS || || * * * * * || || [12 mo. $1.50] || || The House of Mirth || || _Illustrations by_ A. B. WENZELL || || "In my judgment 'The House of Mirth' is a story of such || vitality, of such artistic and moral insight, that it will || stand by itself in American fiction as a study of a certain || kind of society. The title is a stroke of genius in irony, || and gives the key to a novel of absorbing interest, as || relentless as life itself in its judgment, but deeply and || beautifully humanized at the end."--HAMILTON W. MABIE. || || "Mrs. Wharton has done many good things. She has never done || anything better than this."--_The Academy._ || || "She is the first to make a really powerful and brilliant || book out of the material offered by American fashion to the || novelist.... A sterling piece of craftsmanship, a tale which || interests the reader at the start and never lets him rest || till the end is reached."--New York _Tribune_. || || "So accurate an account of the thoughts and deeds of a || single human being has, we are certain, never hitherto been || written."--Boston _Transcript_. || || "It is a great American novel, intensely interesting, || marvelous in its literary finish and powerful in its || delineation of Lily Bart."--Philadelphia _Press_. || || * * * * * || || [12 mo. $1.00] || || Madame de Treymes || || _Illustrated in color by_ A. B. WENZELL || || "We know of no book in which the virtues of the short story || are united with the virtues of the novel in a higher degree || than in this instance."--New York _Sun_. || |+--------------------------------------------------------------+

  +--------------------------------------------------------------+| || BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON || || * * * * * || || SIXTH EDITION || || [_12mo_, $1.50] || || The Greater Inclination || || CONTENTS || || _The Muse's Tragedy_ || _A Journey_ || _The Pelican_ || _Souls Belated_ || _A Coward_ || _The Twilight of the Gods_ || _A Cup of Cold Water_ || _The Portrait_ || || "Between these stories and those of the ordinary || entertaining sort there is a great gulf fixed."--_The Dial._ || || * * * * * || || [_12mo_, $1.50] || || Crucial Instances || || CONTENTS || || _The Duchess at Prayer_ || _The Angel at the Grave_ || _The Recovery_ || _"Copy": A Dialogue_ || _The Rembrandt_ || _The Moving Finger_ || _The Confessional_ || || "Tragedy and comedy, pathos and humor, are mingled in these || pages of brilliant writing and splendid || imagination."--Philadelphia _Press_. || || * * * * * || || [_12mo_, $1.50] || || The Valley of Decision || || 25TH THOUSAND || || "Coming in the midst of an epoch overcrowded with works of || fiction, 'The Valley of Decision' stands out giant-like || above its surroundings. It stands, indeed, almost without a || rival in the modern literary world, and there can be little || doubt that it places Mrs. Wharton at once side by side with || the greatest novelists of the day."--Boston _Evening || Transcript_. || |+--------------------------------------------------------------+

  +--------------------------------------------------------------+| || BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON || || * * * * * || || [_12mo, $1.25_] || || Sanctuary || || ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. APPLETON CLARK || || "This is a striking little book--striking in its simplicity || and penetration, its passion and restraint."--London || _Times_. || || * * * * * || || [_12mo, $1.25_] || || The Touchstone || || "Its characters are real, their motives and actions || thoroughly human. And the author's art is sufficient to || bring out the strength of every situation.
"--_The Argonaut._ || || * * * * * || || [_12mo_, $1.50] || || The Descent of Man || || CONTENTS || || _The Descent of Man_ || _The Mission of Jane_ || _The Other Two_ || _The Quicksand_ || _The Dilettante_ || _The Reckoning_ || _Expiation_ || _The Lady's Maid's Bell_ || _A Venetian Night's Entertainment_ || || "It is, of course, the extraordinary directness with which || Mrs. Wharton's probe goes to the spot under inspection, the || deftness with which she is able to bring to the light of day || what we had hidden even from ourselves, that account for the || admiration with which we regard her short stories."--London || _Academy_. || |+--------------------------------------------------------------+

  +--------------------------------------------------------------+| || BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON || || * * * * * || || [_8vo, $2.50 net._ Postage 17 cents] || || Italian Backgrounds || || ILLUSTRATED BY PEIXOTTO || || CONTENTS || || _An Alpine Posting Inn_ || _A Midsummer Week's Dream_ || _The Sanctuaries of the Pennine_ || _Alps_ || _What the Hermits Saw_ || _A Tuscan Shrine_ || _Sub Umbra Liliorum_ || _March in Italy_ || _Picturesque Milan_ || _Italian Backgrounds_ || || "Belongs in that small class of books of observation which || are also books of artistic and spiritual interpretation; || which not only describe places and monuments, but convey an || impression of peoples, a sense of society, with the elusive || atmosphere in which everything of historical or artistic || value is seen by those who have the gift of sight."--_The || Outlook._ || || * * * * * || || [_12mo, $1.25 net_] || || The Joy of Living || || (_Es lebe das Leben_) || || A play in five acts, by HERMANN SUDERMANN. Translated from || the German by EDITH WHARTON. || || * * * * * || || [_Large 8vo, $2.50 net_] || || The Decoration of Houses || || With 56 full-page illustrations, by EDITH WHARTON and OGDEN || CODMAN, JR. || |+--------------------------------------------------------------+

  Transcriber's Note:

  Most inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling have been left as in theoriginal. Missing or wrong punctuation has been added or corrected,where it is obvious (missing punctuation is often a result of thescanning/OCR process). In one case, a missing letter has also beenadded, and the following misspellings have been corrected: involuntairly toinvoluntarily, sensastions to sensations, Wetsmore to Westmore, Cilftonto Clifton, It to If