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Maupassant was a very different writer from Daudet. although he died at the age of 45, the most exacting critics have recognized in him qualities of sobriety, strength and clearness which form the genuine French splrit, and which are the characteristics of classical works. But in addition to this, one finds in Maupassant a particular disposition to conceive life which is not only French, but also Gallic. For this reason Maupassant is is not generally appreciated as much out of France, as where the Gallic race is predominant...
...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...
...invite all members of the University to contribute to this column, but we are not responsible for the sentiments expressed. Every communication must be accompanied by the name of the writer...
...writer further thinks that some expression from Harvard would be particularly valuable as an irritant to English feeling, which is very sensitive just now. Passing over the propriety of such a remedy, I am not sure that "every endeavor has been made to conciliate us and to purchase our acquiescence." The Clayton-Bulwer treaty may have been repealed to strengthen an Anglo-Saxon understanding, but hardly to purchase our acquiescence in a war policy pursued on a continent to which, happily, the Monroe Doctrine does not extend. The announcement in Parliament the other day that England alone had sided with...
...invite all members of the University to contribute to this column, but we are not responsible for the sentiments expressed. Every communication must be accompanied by the name of the writer...