On Life And Letters

CONTENTS Preface - M. Alexandre Dumas (the Younger) - Children's Playthings - Gustave Flaubert - M. Guy de Maupassant, Critic and Novelist - "Happiness" - Mérimée - Outside Literature - Bibliophilia - Criminals - Death and the Little Gods - The Great EncyclopFdia - M. Henri Meilhac at the French Academy - A Forgotten Poet: Saint-Cyr de Rayssac - The Errors of History - On Scepticism - Euripides - M. Signoret's Marionettes - Mother and Daughter: Madame de Sabran and Madame de Custine - M. Jules Lemaître - 1814 - Tomorrow - M. Charles Morice - The Great St. Antony - Anthology - The Wisdom of Gyp - Anthology - M. Gaston Paris and the French Literature of the Middle Ages - Dictionary - M. Zola's Purity - "The Tempest" - The Blond Tress - An Honest Girl - "The History of the People of Israel" - The Eloquence of the Tribune - Romance and Magic - M. Octave Feuillet - Joan of Arc and Poetry Anatole France won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1921 - a noted man of letters, he was a leading figure of French literary life.