Life — October 28, 1909 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Literary Zoo (Continued from page 572) trust that nobody has been over- value of Mr. Norman or at the expense serious purpose and conscious re vility underlie the conduct er’s; we trust, too, that Mr. Hap- ocs not really minimize the impor- that But 5 broached the question in a ing the o's sense of bi which he b r that invites opinion, we venture clief that Collier's could more easily | to publish unlovely cover desig: Precious possession as employ editors and writers un- to perceive that life is altogether to s to be taken serious! lp brain of He Paradise; into the world along with evil and humor in the him from man it It tears drove laughter If the orthodox ie herntage akes us human ption of heavenly bliss holds goo el isan anomaly, They do eping an; sinile: wherefore should they wee Is who weep must smile. gh long and loud at we mor 1 until we can la r absurd pretensions to being civilized in all its: grinning huge joke the race rntil we see the can rmity has { crablike progress—just so long will is globe be misgoverned Ve are asked to remember that Goethe 1 low opinion of humor. Perhaps is why he came to write The Sor- of Werther, an achievement imentality that has seldom been ex- ed. Ve sce nothing strange in man’s in- nce on his sense of humor. What ald life be without it? And literature? solemn feast without the salt of irony ; inquet where the infrequent voice of us is drowned in the pompous decla- ion of the dull. Miserable indeed are sore-aflicted who have it not— the sense of humor which rainbows tears of the world.""—IV. T. Larned. 5 in ne Many a man passes for wise because asks questions which cannot be an- cred even by himself. Baruancuiry Manon, N.Y. | | BRIARCLIFE LODGE. Resort Hotel of High Quality May 1st to December Ist with soperior accommodations for three ‘Aparttwests Gecorsicd and fernibed under exclesive orders agement DAVID B. PLUMER, Manager ee at 3 ptom Ip A Class Bu Itself’ It will be your greatest safeguard, “steadiest employee. the U.S. oF The Werner Co. 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Madam Bovary, writton whon Flaubert was abont thirty years of Age, was undertaken with the determination to write a book with which ho should bo,—not satisfied, for what author worthy of the namo is ever satisfed? but which should’ come as near perfection as possible, The very Ideal of the literary artist 1s hero evoked before our inward gaze; the absolute, the Irremediable scorn of contemporary sticcess, the con: tempt for vanity, tho complete absence of all desiro for gain.— these elementary virtues of the great author are naturally found there, as Wellas the scrupulous conscience which no dificulty discourages, and tho Invincible patience which no beginning over again ever weartes; and especially and everywhero the fame, the sacred fever of creative Intellect. Never was human brain possessed by more passionate frenzy for art; and in saying that all Flaubert's great works were composed in the samo way, wich this prodigious caro in detall, this implacable scarch for truth and beauty, this zealand tenacity, 1¢ 18 plain why in thirty years of this exhausting work ho composed so few volumes, and theso of such virile composition, of such sovereirn mastery of style, thatall other modera Works scem light, cowardly, and incomplete eside them. Tho writings of Gustave Flaubert aro £0 original, daring, trath- fal yet imaginative, that taey cannot bo weighed or Judged by other gipadards. Being original bo has served as model for many but iaubort remains Flaubert—individualand inimitable, the peer of the foremost, writers of Franco. Flaubert’s Works aro a delicious revelry, a feast of faultless characterization, exquisite diction, and so tilaminative, harmonic, Firlle, that the reader reads and rereads with ever increasiog pleasure, To tho healthy student of human nature, the absolute frankness and utter scorn of the conventional appeals with irresistible force and con- Viction. His thoughts breed thought. While his writings may glow With the purple flamo of passion, the grossness 1s burned out by the pur- ifying fire of trath—and led by the magic of bis genius, one goes back and back end back, into the ages, and fe-lives the life which, bat for him, had been buried jn oblivion, THESE TEN VOLUMES, ACTUAL SIZE 8 «5% CON. TAINING OVER THREE THOUSAND PAGES. This {s the origi hal American and English copyrighted complete edition, printed from anew Freoch Elzevir type on pure antique egg-sbell finish paper, the pages havo liberat margin aod the work is beautifully illustrated by TWENTY PHOTO. 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