GABRIEL TARDE (1843-1904) MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE PROFESSOR AT THE COLLEGE OF FRANCE TRANSLATED BY CLOUDESLEY BRERETON M.A., L. ES L. WITH A PREFACE BY H.G. WELLS LONDON DUCKWORTH and CO. 1905

The whole of Tarde is in this little book.

He has put into it along with a charming fancy his genialness and depth of spirit, his ideas on the influence of art and the importance of love, in an exceptional social milieu.

This agreeable day-dream is vigorously thought out. On reading it we fancy we are again seeing and hearing Tarde. In order to indulge in a repetition of the illusion, a pious friendship has desired to clothe this fascinating work in an appropriate dress.

A.L.

CONTENTS

DEDICATION
PREFACE By H.G. WELLS
INTRODUCTORY
I. PROSPERITY
II. THE CATASTROPHE
III. THE STRUGGLE
IV. SAVED
V. REGENERATION
VI. LOVE
VII. THE ÆSTHETIC LIFE
NOTE ON TARDE By JOSEPH MANCHON