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...Anatole Le Braz delivered his third lecture in the Hyde lecture series before a large audience in Sanders Theater yesterday afternoon. M. Le Braz spoke of three kinds of Breton literature and showed the influence on them of those traits of the Breton character which he had taken up in his two preceding lectures...
Turning to the poetry of Brittany, M. Le Braz said, "Every Breton because of his national celtic traits is born a poet." The collection of lyrics and epics published by the Viscomte de la Villemaque in 1839 was ranked by George Sand above Homer, and a more recent collection by Luzel and Le Braz is even more surprizing. As an example the lecturer recited. the funeral ode written by Julien Cadonal on the eve of his execution...
CERCLE FRANCAIS LECTURES. III. "Caracteres essentiels de la legende, de la poesie et du theatre celtique en Bretagne," M. Le Braz, Sanders Theatre, 4.30 P. M. Admission by ticket only till 4.25; after that hour open to the public...
...Anatole Le Braz delivered the second of his series of Hyde lectures in Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon. He discussed the Breton nature and showed its close resemblance to that of the other Celtic peoples. In summing up their characteristic traits he pointed out the craving for adventure which has constantly lead them from the east to the west, from the old world to the new. They became greater navigators than the Phoenicians or the Scandinavians, and Homer's Odessey in comparison with St. Brandon's voyages seems but a commonplace trip. No race has been so endowed in the creation...
...Braz will deliver the third Hyde lecture Monday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre...