Parisian Points of View: written by Ludovic Halevy, translated by Edith V.B. Matthews with an introduction bv Brander Matthews, C. 1894, first edition, published by Harper & Brothers, New York.To most American readers of fiction M. Ludovic Halevy is known chiefly, if not solely, as the author of that most charming of French novels, The Abbe Constantin. The novel had the rare good fortune of pleasing at once the broad public of indiscriminate readers of fiction and the narrower circle of real lovers of literature. Halevy had a very real gift -- and this collection, includes, Only a Waltz, The Dancing-Master, The Circus Charger, Blacky, The Most Beautiful Woman in Paris, The Story of A Ball-Dress, The Insurgent, The Chinese Ambassador and In the Express.