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...Doumic will lecture at New Haven this evening on Alphonse Daudet. He will lecture in Worcester on Wednesday, and in Boston on Friday...
...Bookman (New York, Dodd, Mead and Company) for February contains the usual pages of entertaining gossip of writers and books. There is an interesting article, biographical and critical, on the late Alphonse Daudet. The controversy over the hundred best books for a village library is continued in two communications, each holding a different view. Many recent books are reviewed at length by various critics...
...consist almost entirely of the rapid reading of living authors, with a general discussion of each work. The idea is to take up each week some English, American, French, German or Russian novel, translations of foreign works always being used. Such authors as Thomas Hardy, Weyman, Meredith, Tolstoi, Alphonse Daudet, Heyse, Mrs. Ward, Hall Caine, C. D. Warner and Howells will be among those studied, the recitation hours being given up to a lecture on the book in hand, with a thorough discussion of the purpose, plot, characters, etc. Men electing the course-which consists of one hour each week...
FRENCH 1A. - Freeborn's Morceaux Choisis d' Alphonse Daudet will be begun today...
...Alphonse Daudet has everything that Zola has not, wit, humor, gaiety and facility. Zola himself said of him that he possessed every quality except strength, and that he gained as he went on. For many years he was under the influence of Dickens, and while under his influhe wrote Delobelle, who was formed after one of the characters of Dickens. In all his qualities he was very variable, and one could never know when he would be at his best and when at his worst...