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Pull up your trousers!' " Though Suvorin was 26 years the elder, the two became close friends. The Dreyfus Case finally put an end to their intimacy: Chekhov was a strong supporter of Zola and the Dreyfusards, Suvorin was a professional anti-Semite...
...LIFE OF GEORGE MOORE-Joseph Hone-Macmillan ($3). First full-length biography of the Irish novelist, interesting for its disclosure of more paradoxes in George Moore's own life than he himself invented. Waging a bitter, successful fight against the English censorship on Zola's books, he discredited a similar campaign on behalf of Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. A reckless spender in the Paris days of the Confessions of a Young Man he carefully saved his own earnings while pretending to be at the gates of the poorhouse, left an estate of ?68,000 which he deposited...
Jerome LeR. Abrams '39, Long Branch, New Jersey; Horace C. Arnold '37, East Bloomfield, New York; Zola A. Aronson '33, Fort Plain, New York; John Ashmead, Jr. '38, Windsor, Connecticut; William A. Beardalee '37, New Brunswick, New Jersey; David Beck '38, Union City, New Jersey; Robert L. Bishop '37, Great Neck, New York; Phillips I. Blumberg '39, New York City; James H. Brooks '38, Staten Island, New York; James M. Carpenter '37, Poughkeepsie, New York; Frank L. Chamberlin, Jr., Stamford, Connecticut; John L. Chase '37, Tully, New York; Howard F. Cline '39, Elizabeth, New Jersey; J. Emerson Coyle '37, Brooklyn...
...begins with a chapter on his first impressions of Paris, the result of an exploration he made 45 years ago with Arthur Symons into that remarkable artistic world inhabited by such figures as Mallarmé, Rodin, Verlaine, Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt. Taine and Renan were then still alive, Zola and Anatole France were prominent figures, but the young Englishmen were most inspired by Verlaine, who greeted them jovially, talked poetry to them, and spent his last two francs to buy them a drink of rum. Readers of From Rousseau to Proust can determine how stimulating these international contacts were from...
...basis of a secret dossier, which was later proved a forgery, and other scant evidence including the testimony of famed Handwriting Expert Alphonse Bertillon. Publicly degraded, Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island for life. When it became apparent that Dreyfus had been shamelessly railroaded, Novelist Emile Zola, backed by Clemenceau and Anatole France, wrote his celebrated J'accuse, an open letter to the President of the Republic. Tried and convicted for libeling the Army, Zola fled to England. By then I'affaire Dreyfus had aroused world interest, caused a national scandal which split all France into...