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This is not to say that history is remote from literature; does not Voltaire define history as "une fable convenue"? Nor that economics is devoid of human interest; art goes a-begging when men starve. On the contrary we mean that poetry is one of the data of history, is history interpreted to us from the past, written for us in the present, and predicted to us of the future; and similarly that not a few of the lessons of economics are inferable from the dramas of Brieux, Hauptmann, or Galsworthy, as well as from the paintings of Menzel...
...Paris, as in many other parts of France, particularly in Alsace and Lorraine, the religious question (TIME, Sept. 8) is a favorite topic for conversation. Men, and sometimes women, gather at their favorite cafe and after a preliminary garçon, une fine champagne, or un bock, s'il vous plaît, they lean forward over their tables and start the conversation with: Qu'est-ce que se passe en Alsace Lorraine; qu'est-ce que se passera? Herriot, que va-t-il faire...
...Sylva" was the pen name of Queen Elizabeth (died in 1915), aunt of the present Monarch and wife of King Carol I of Rumania who died on Oct. 7, 1914. She wrote with facility in English, French, German, Rumanian. The most noteworthy of her writings: Les Pensees d'une Relne (1882), Cuvinte Sufletesci (1888); two poems, Sappho and Hammerstein...
...Citoyen American, engage au service de la France. Veritable ame d'elite pour sa bravoure at son esprit de sacrifice. Est tombe le 23 Avril 1917 apres une heroique defense contre trois appareils ennemis." (A ete cite...
Berlioz, Songs with Orchestra, "Une Nuit d'Ete" (Theophile Gauthier): (a) "Absence", (b) "Villanelle...