Excerpt from Pastels in Prose Special acknowledgments are due to MM. Ephraim Mikhael, Pierre Quillard, and Achille Delaroche for the prose poems em titled, respectively, Solitude, T he Broth ers-at-arms, and The Conquering Dream, which were written for this volume; to Mme. Emile Hennequin for the six prose poems, by her late husband, selected by her for the translator from among hitherto unpublished manuscripts; and to MM. Catulle Mendes and Stephane Mallarme for their courtesy in enabling the translator to include in this collection versions of prose poems from the final proof-sheets of their new volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.