Word: augier
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Monthly for June is entertaining if not conspicuously original. Prof. Cohn writes admiringly of one Frenchman, and R. W. Herrick unadmiringly of all Frenchmen. M. Cohn's paper is a brief resume of Emile Augier's literary character, and demonstration of his rights to higher recognition as a playwright than is generally accorded him. "The Philosophy of a Modern Frenchman" starts out with the assertion that a Frenchman has no philosophy. The writer evidently counts all Frenchmen as of the school of Richepin and de Maupassant, earth-bound and with only a mud roof...