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                             THE LATER LIFE

                                   By

                             LOUIS COUPERUS

           Author of "Small Souls," "Footsteps of Fate," etc.

                             Translated by
                      Alexander Teixeira de Mattos




                                New York
                         Dodd, Mead and Company
                                  1915







TRANSLATOR'S NOTE


The Later Life is the second of The Books of the Small Souls,
following immediately upon Small Souls, the novel that gives the
title to the series. In the present story, Couperus reverts, at
times and in a measure, to that earlier, "sensitivist" method which
he abandoned almost wholly in Small Souls and which he again abandons
in The Twilight of the Souls and in Dr. Adriaan,