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...Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud), French novelist, sculptor, painter, musician, Academician and Naval officer (Jan. 14, 1850). Author of Le mariage de Loti, Le Roman d'un Spahi, Pêcheur d'lslande, Mon Frère Yves and other colorful novels, frequently drawn from his own experiences in the tropics. Loti's literary influence waned perceptibly during his last years...
Died. Louis Marie Julien Viaud, pen name Pierre Loti, 73, French novelist, sculptor, painter, musician, naval officer, at Hendaye, France. He travelled widely, particularly in the Orient...
...surprising, then, that we should find Mr. O'Brien, who too had long anticipated a visit to Tahiti, even more disappointed and disillusioned when he visited? Tahiti nearly forty years after Loti. As in his book telling of the marquesas Islands, in this later book there is constantly recurring the note of sadness which is felt by all lovers of the Polynesians when they contemplate the sad remnant of that once spleen did race. Whenever a barbaric people have been wiped out by civilization it has made a sorry, sordid tale; the physical beauty and lovable natures of the Tahitians...
...Wilmot was the winner of the Boylston Prize for Elocution in 1909, and he is to appear in a minor role this season with Viola Allen in Pierre Loti's Chinese play, "The Daughter of Heaven," at the Century Theatre, New York City...
...Brooks' defence of the type of mind indicated by a fair understanding of the word "aesthetic" becomes not so specialized a view as he forecasts. He is as abhorrent of "new culture" as he is severe towards the "coarse mind"; and the "poser" wherever found, whether he reads Pierre Loti to maintain refinement or abstains from drinking milk because he thinks it unmanly, is called, if he be a pretender, "diabolically insincere". In short Mr. Brooks depicts a very decent sort of fellow, who writes, and he asks: "Why shouldn't he write--and as honestly and ambitiously...