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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hugues Le Roux gave his fourth lecture yesterday afternoon on "Maupassant comme peintre de Pinstinct de la race...
...Anglo-Saxon Maupassant sometime seems shocking, but this is because it is only the Gaul who can appreciate his delicate touch. The disposition of the Gauls is to adore the forces of nature, and in their anxiety they leaned towards what La Fontaine called "la bonne loi naturelle." So Maupassant loves nature with a religious tenderness and sincerity which no poet has equalled...
Other acquisitions are, "A General History of the Philippines," by Juan de la Concepcion, a work in fourteen volumes curiously bound and printed in 1790 at the Convent of our Lady of Loretto; and an album containing the portraits of students who attended the Round Hill School at Northampton, Massachusetts. The Album is interesting as almost all the portraits are of men who later became famous either as scholars or statesmen...
Cercle Francais Lectures. IV. Maupassant, comme peintre de l'instinct de la race. M. Hugues Le Roux. Sanders Theatre...
...Lectures on La Prevoyance Sociale en France. II. Le secours mutuel en France (15,500 societes et 2,600,000 adherents). Professor Mabilleau. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...