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...book is not to be judged as a whole but shall be condemned for a single passage out of its context. In one fell stroke this clause would outlaw the Bible, Shakespeare, the Greek and Roman classics, Swift, Chaucer, the whole of Restoration comedy, Milton, Fielding, Voltaire, Flaubert, Goethe, Balzac, the writings of the early Christian fathers, Martin Luther, the Encyclopedia Britannica and the dictionary...
...Power" wrote the great French novelist, Balzac, in "The Country Doctor", "is, as it were, the heart of the State. Nature, in all her creations, shuts in the vital principle to give it greater stamina; so with the body politic." This is the key to the study of government. The national State is the most powerful creature in the modern world. Hence, even if its study were not a matter of importance, it would be a fascinating diversion for educated men. But it happens to be a study of the greatest importance. We live in a world which is mostly...
...greatest works include, among literally scores of others, a Kiss, which made him famous, a bathrobe which made him notorious, and a meditative caveman who made him immortal. The bathrobe was carved upon the statue of Balzac, hiding the pudgy limbs, revealing the noble head. It caused a furious outcry and was, naturally, rejected. But the conception was quite logical, for Balzac's head was the only distinguished feature of his personal appearance. Therefore, in the statue, the head is the only thing the observer sees. The rest is bathrobe...
Ever since the publication of the Comedie Humaine the novels of Balzac have been criticised on the ground that the great French Romancer, a Bourgeois by birth and training, really knew nothing of the "high society" which he so often depicts. The Holts are bringing out in March a book. "Women in the Life of Balzae," which once and for all disposes of this criticism by revealing Balzae's intimate association with various women of the highest social standing. The author, Miss Juanita Floyd of Goucher College, has devoted years to the study of Balzae's life...
...been awarded to Joseph Auslander, ocC., of Brooklyn, N. Y. This prize, which was founded by the Class of 1888 in memory of their classmate, Lloyd McKim Garrison, is awarded annually for the "best poem on a subject to be chosen by a committee of the Department of English." Balzac's "Whither?" was the subject for this year's competition, the winning selection being in the form of a group of three sonnets on this theme...