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...Author. M. Andre Maurois was born in Normandy, and until after the War he had no opportunity for writing. He celebrated his literary freedom with Les Silences du Colonel Bramble, which received a stupendous reception for a first novel. Then followed Les Discours du Docteur O'Grady and Ni Ange Ni Bete. But his Ariel surpasses all, and M. Maurois has been well called "worthy disciple of Lytton Strachey...
...current issue of the Yale Alum- ni Weekly, the decision of the Yale rowing authorities to stick to the English stroke for another year is discussed as follows. The Alumni Weekly seems more fervent in its support of this policy than the Yale News...
...spreading Harvard influence through the West without seeming unpleasantly officious. The play reviews are decidedly entertaining, but unequal, and in each case the reviewer has curiously reflected the actual language of the performance he witnessed. Thus the language of the reviews of "The Blue Bird" and of "Kathleen Ni Hoolihan" approaches critical dignity, while the dialect of the reviews of the musical comedies suggests the influence of comic opera lyrics. Mr. McMahon's letter on "The Playboy" capably presents one side of the discussion that has risen over that drama...
...Roux took for the text of his lecture a passage from Pascal: "L'homme n'est ni ange ni bete." This principle of Pascal Zola has ignored, and has only considered the lower side of man. Zola's novel, "La Terse," has lately been dramatized and put on the stage in a Parisian literary theatre. The characters are countrymen, people of little or no culture, who in every country have a certain brutality of instinct. Yet in criticising this work, the peasants declare that Zola has ascribed to them all the crimes committed in the whole of France during...
...Whittemore, B. L. S.; J. F. Driscoll, B. H. S.; J. F. Vaughan, B. and N.; C. Duveneck, B. and N.; L. Shepard, Hop.; F. J. Zaeder, W. H. S.; W. J. Zaeder, W. H. S.; G. A. Mahoney, Boston E. H. S.; A. E. Carroll, Ni...