By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories
CONTENTS BY ROCK AND POOL SOLEPA THE FISHER FOLK OF NUKUFETAU MRS. MACLAGGAN'S BILLY AN ISLAND MEMORY A HUNDRED FATHOMS DEEP ON A TIDAL RIVER DENISON GETS ANOTHER SHIP JACK SHARK'S PILOT THE "PALU" OF THE EQUATORIAL PACIFIC
PREPARER'S NOTE
This eBook was prepared from an edition published by Meyer
Brothers and Company, New York, 1900.
Of this edition 400 copies were printed.
25 copies on Japan Paper, numbered 1 to 25.
375 copies on specially made paper, numbered 26 to 400.
PREFACE
This little Parisian silhouette in prose was written by Balzac to be
the first chapter of a new series of the "Comedie Humaine" that he was
preparing while the first was finishing. Balzac was never tired. He
said that the men who were tired were those who rested and tried to
work afterwards.
"A Street of Paris and its Inhabitant" was in its author's mind when
Hetzel, engaged in collecting a copy for the work entitled "Le Diable
a Paris" that all book lovers admire, asked Balzac for an unpublished
manuscript.
Balzac gave him this, after retouching it, in order that it should
CONTENTS BY ROCK AND POOL SOLEPA THE FISHER FOLK OF NUKUFETAU MRS. MACLAGGAN'S BILLY AN ISLAND MEMORY A HUNDRED FATHOMS DEEP ON A TIDAL RIVER DENISON GETS ANOTHER SHIP JACK SHARK'S PILOT THE "PALU" OF THE EQUATORIAL PACIFIC