 The best examples of the latter are to be found in the volume entitled "Mélanges tirés d'une petite bibliothèque", published in 1829 and afterwards continued.Of his tales the best are "Infernaliana" (1822); "Smarra, ou les démons de la nuit" (1821); "Trilby, ou le lutin d'Argail" (1822); "Histoire du roi de Bohême et de ses sept châteaux" (1830); "La Fée aux miettes" (1832); "Inès de las Sierras" (1837); "Les quatre talismans et la légende de soeur Béatrix" (1838), together with some fairy stories published in the year of his death, and "Franciscus Columna", which appeared after it.The "Souvenirs de jeunesse" (1832) are interesting but untrustworthy , and the "Dictionnaire universel de la langue française" (1823), which, in the days before Littré, was one of the most useful of its kind, is said to have been not wholly or mainly Nodier's .