ALPHONSE DAUDET wrote "Sapho" to be read by his son at the age of twenty-one. It is the story of a young man's passion for a beautiful model; of her love and renunciation of him for his own sake; told with that fidelity to truth and art which stamp it with the sure fire of genius. "Manon Lescaut," written by the "wicked priest" Prevost, is "the first masterpiece of French Literature which can properly be called a novel," said George Saintsbury: "Manon is a young girl with whom the Chevalier des Grieux, almost as young as herself, falls frantically in love. The pair fly to Paris, and the novel is occupied with the description of Manon's faithlessness. The story...is chiefly remarkable for the perfect simplicity and absolute lifelikeness of the character-drawing."