Chapter I: Front Matter

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CLEO THE MAGNIFICENT

by

LOUIS ZANGWILL

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MR. LOUIS ZANGWILL'S WORKS.

A Drama in Dutch.

_Spectator:_ Certainly a book which has not merely cleverness but real vitality.

_Speaker:_ Deliciously original ... and told with great spirit, humor and dramatic vigor.

"T. P." in _Weekly Sun:_ What a delightful creation Mrs. de Griendt is! Indeed I should have personally been glad if we had had more of her.... I think the reader will agree with me that I have not exaggerated the literary merit of this exquisitely-described scene.

The World and a Man.

_Academy:_ A masterful novelist.

_Illustrated London News:_ One of the cleverest novels of the day.

_Pall Mall Gazette:_ Finely told.... It is an achievement in a high form of art.

_Daily Chronicle:_ It contains many passages which the greatest masters in the same _genre_ might have been proud to have written.

The Beautiful Miss Brooke.

_Brooklyn Eagle:_ A brilliant bit of work.

_Detroit Free Press:_ He has analyzed with ability and finish.... This is a story to be admired for its discernment and its originality.

_Boston Beacon:_ The story is thoroughly entertaining and well done, ... and in analysis of character, force, and directness, it exceeds the author's previous essays in fiction.

_Chicago Record:_ Very few recent novels which have come out of England will compare with this story in two points--absolute conciseness of form and analysis of motive.... Here is a theme of vital truthfulness and Mr. Louis Zangwill has dealt with it with the hand of a master of form....

A Nineteenth Century Miracle.

_Academy:_ As tantalizing a problem as was ever bound in cloth.

_Pall Mall Gazette:_ As tangled a skein as ever the brain of Gaboriau evolved.

_Daily Chronicle:_ We have seldom read a better piece of mystification.

_Morning Leader:_ It would probably defy the most ingeniously imaginative reader to make in the course of the story even an approximate leap toward the heart of the miracle that Louis Zangwill has wrought for his astonishment.

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CLEO THE MAGNIFICENT

Or

The Muse of the Real

A Novel

by

LOUIS ZANGWILL

Author of "The Beautiful Miss Brooke," "The World and a Man," Etc., Etc.

New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., Publishers. London: Wm. Heinemann. MDCCCXCVIII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1897, by G. W. DILLINGHAM CO., In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.

_Cleo the Magnificent._