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Department of French. The Zola Trial and its connection with the Dreyfus Case. Mr. C. H. C. Wright. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Boston before, with both Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew in it, and was, in fact, one of their earlier successes. The Wednesday and Saturday matinees will be devoted to "Camille," and Mrs. Potter's impersonation of the heroine will be watched with keen interest. Some three years ago Zola's "Therese" was a portion of the Potter-Bellew repertoire, and in response to the popular demand this powerful play will be given one performance, and that will be Saturday night, the last of the engagement...
...Copeland delivered a most interesting lecture last evening on Zola, Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, Bourget and other French novelists...
...Zola, said Mr. Copeland, in his accumulation of details may be called a realist, but in his massing of movements and men, he is certainly an idealist, but an idealist whose ideals were of the mud rather than of the sky. In one of his works he has taken the family of Bougon Macquart and carried them on through one book after another in all their adventures, a thing which no writer since Balsac has attempted, and by this means he gives a back-ground of the world and time which most modern French writers fail...
Alphonse Daudet has everything that Zola has not, wit, humor, gaiety and facility. Zola himself said of him that he possessed every quality except strength, and that he gained as he went on. For many years he was under the influence of Dickens, and while under his influhe wrote Delobelle, who was formed after one of the characters of Dickens. In all his qualities he was very variable, and one could never know when he would be at his best and when at his worst...