The Revue Franco-Américaine is a French magazine especially designed for American readers. Within the last few years the number of more fortunately situated Americans has so greatly increased, and the appreciation of French literature has manifested itself so largely that diluted translations no longer satisfy the public of the United States. But it is still with a shade of reservation that the keeness of French thought and the brightness of French narrative are accepted across the sea. A sound open-air sense of cleanliness — combined perhaps with some reminiscence of Puritan asceticism — leaves Americans with the conviction that a man should not read the tales he will not let his daughters read. And it is with the fullest understanding of this point of view that the writers enlisted by the Revue Franco-Américaine address themselves to the new friends awaiting them.
The most brilliant men of the new France offer their best work to the New America : that is, in a word, the raison d’être of the Revue Franco-Américaine.
This first number is sold, as a specimen, but in future the Revue will be supplied to subscribers only. The annual subscription is $10, and shall be received by any Bookseller in the States.
