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...Hugues I e Roux, who will deliver the fifth annual lectures of the Cercle Francais, will arrive in New York tomorrow on the steamer La Gascogne. During his stay in this country he will deliver about a hundred lectures under the auspices of universities and other institutions, and will visit over forty cities in the United States and Canada. Among the more prominent colleges which he will visit are Yale, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, Williams, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania...
...Roux is today one of the most eminent novelists and lecturers in France. He started in literature with the principle that a writer, before he gives form to his own experience, should study every mood of human activity. He therefore commenced with the study of low Parisian life; and then, ascending the social scale, he finally entered the society of most of the sovereigns of Europe. This inquiry has given him an insight into all classes of life which very few men have held; and it has in consequence made him an exceptional authority on human nature in its varying...
Great as M. Hugues Le Roux's successes have been as a journalist, novelist, sociologist and dramatist, it is as a conversationalist and orator that he is particularly noted in France. His language is full of poetry and color, and his diction is extremely clear. He has already spoken in all the capitals of Europe with a success which will undoubtedly be equalled in the United States...
...Roux will deliver a series of eight lectures on "Le Roman Contemporain." The first lecture, on February 22, will be a discussion of the question whether or not the contemporary French novel presents a truthful picture of French society. The next six lectures, coming on February 14, 17, 19, 21, 24 and 26, will deal with the French novelists, Flaubert, Daudet. Maupassant, Bourget, Zola and Anatole France. The final lecture on February 28 will treat of the young French novelists. There will also be delivered eight additional lectures on subjects of present interest...
Another French story is published in this number, continuing the plan started with the "Rivals" in the November issue. "Le Reveillon" is admirably illustrated by George Roux; a contribution of especial interest is "Lord Bateman. A Ballad," with illustrations (hitherto unpublished) by W. M. Thackeray. A comment is written by the novelist's daughter, Mrs. Ritchie...