THE WIFE OF A VAIN MAN,; Translated by Selma Borg and Marie A Brown

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1871. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 156. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Marie Sophie Schwartz, a Swedish novelist, born at Boras, July 4, 1819. She is a daughter of Johan Birath, a merchant, and married in 1839 Prof. Gustavus Magnus Schwartz, a physiologist, who died in 1858. Since that date she has published numerous novels, of which a complete German translation has appeared in Stuttgart (54 vols., 1865-'71). Some of them have been published in English in the United States, including "Gold and Name," "Birth and Education," and "Guilt and Innocence (Inventory #: 46785)