Life — February 6, 1908 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Try it. egos want the bn tog Lah on RECS with Sote Importer’ and agents for U.S. LUYTIES BROTHERS NEW YORK The See Sree. vo Sirmione mee CO warrant for it, it is necessary to detach utterly the cause and the crusaders from certain other synchronous expressions of the French mind. Thus we must dismiss, irrelevant and impertinent, the recent announcement that the French Govern- ment has made Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy an Officier d? Académie, in recognition of a certain book exhibit. The French are not notably deficient in the sense of humor, and their appreciation at this particular time of an imported scientific Christianity sustains the traditions of the esprit Gaulois. Similarly, we must not allow ourselves to be confused by observing that Parisians have taken such a lent fancy to Mark Twain that they have made overtures for the dramatic rights of his earlier sketches, such as “How to Run an Agricultural Paper.” eo * ERSONALLY we have not been pur- sued by the “scrofulous French novel on gray paper in blunt type.” We have even somchow received the impression that the great mass of Americans satisfied their craving for the morbid and unpleasant by means of that considerable fraction of our press which publishes what it euphe- mistically describes as “‘a family paper.” (Query: Do the French get their im- pressions of our domestic life through the perusal of these journals?) ‘The British, as Mrs. Browning has complained, “have a scornful insular way of calling the French ‘light’; but do we, as a nation, entertain the mischievous conception of French life and literature deplored by Le Matin and M. Leroux? » «* « Y it must be so. Nothing less than a minute and exhaustive examination of our literary importations from France could have prompted this educational movement, whose instigators, with official approval, are establishing book agencies and lecture bureaus in the United States for the dissemination of French belles lettres, When a Paris book agent knocks at your door, remember the watchword of his nation—loujours la politesse; and do not turn him away. He is only secking to wean you from Daudct, Bourget, Mendes, Loti, Balzac, the Abbé Prevost; and to lead you gently through “Paul et Vir- ginie,” “‘Aucassin et Nicolette”—upward and onward to Georges Ohnet and “Le roman d’un jeune homme pauvre.”” * * «# UT these well-meant efforts will avail nothing unless the propagandists strike at the root of the evil. In a scrupu- lous endeavor to trace the cause of American misconception of French ways, we think we have hit upon a primary source of such perversion. 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