HENRI BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE

HENRI BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE (1737-1814), French novelist, born at Havre; an engineer by profession, was a disciple of Rousseau both sentimentally and speculatively; his chief work, "PAUL AND VIRGINIA", shows here as in his other writings, says Professor Saintsbury, "a remarkable faculty of word-painting, and also of influencing the feelings".