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Lecture. Zola, Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, Bourget, and other contemporary French novelists. Mr. Copeland, Sever...
...reading. Rev. Edward Everett Hale has an article on "The Story of a Boys' Club," describing how a crowd of two hundred young loafers were enticed to join the Club, then how they were interested and finally set to work at useful occupations. A very good article is "Cervantes, Zola, Kipling and Co." by Brander Matthews. It is a comparison and a criticism of these three great novelists, each of whom has written masterpieces which are as widely separated as it is possible for novels to be. Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, is the father of story tellers "when...
...Does Zola's La Debacle fulfil the definition of a realistic novel...
...meantime, a series of interesting talks are being prepared by several of the professors. It is expected that early in the year four lectures - on Balzac, Daudet, de Maupassant, Zola - will be given before the conference under the direction of M. de Sumichrast and M. Brun, the new instructor in French, has generously consented to assist the society. The first regular meeting of the club will take place in No. 8 Brattle Hall, on Wednesday evening next...
...which were largely instrumental in shaping his character, and then he goes on to discuss the dominant ideas of Dumas's novels and plays, his types of women (the Preraphaelesque, the Bachante, and the Penelope), - some of which Mr. Fletcher thinks to be so bizarre that he says with Zola, "Where can Mr. Dumas have studied his women?" - and of his treatment of moral (and immoral) problems. He concludes with M. Bourget that Dumas fils is "A writer very little given to questions of everyday living, and that his work ought to be studied by the historian of French sensibilities...