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Thus howled, last week, the Royalist organ L'Action Française. Its editor, Léon Daudet, son of Alphonse Daudet, whose Letters from My Mill breathe such quietude, seemingly had written amok. For this there was some excuse. Only the day before His Holiness had placed L'Action on the index ex-purgatorius, had banned it to most of its royalist subscribers who are Roman Catholics...
...STEAMER BOOK-Compiled by Edwin Valentine Mitchell-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). A snack of Stevenson, a morsel of Melville, a tidbit of Dibdin, a fact or two about navigation and (for convalescence) one or two very short stories by Hawthorne, Daudet and compeers. In meagre fashion and with no lavish excess of ingenuity in arrangement, all tastes are catered to. There is a scientifico-detective story. There are lines from Lord Tennyson...
...American college student, regaled with novels like Daudet's Sappho and nourished upon choice anecdotes of the Montmartre, has long been accustomed to look to Paris as the Elysian Fields of the genus Student. But the days of cheap beer and gay grisettes exist only in the imagination. The present lot of the Parisian student is indeed, a sorry...
...automobile, mirabile dictu, has caused the alarming decadence of French literature. When Zola, Daudet, Flaubert, and Maupassant went out, the evil-smelling horseless carriage came in. Since the hectic days of the Paris-Madrid races Frenchmen have been too busy driving and repairing their machines--have smudged their fingers too much with grease--to cultivate the fine arts of Moliere and Racline...
...king to maintain its existing form of government, since much of the power of the Commons rests upon its use and control of the royal prerogative; but in France a king could be no more useful, although certainly more expensive, than a president. One would certainly advise M. Daudet and his Camelots to foregather at Oxford, traditionally the home of lost causes...