. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. MOl the vermilion of tin- sky. The boys were sober at the thought thatthi> was their last day in Europe, and that they were now t<- return• the s< Master Lewis, were the favorite haunts of the author of Paul and Virginia. 11< was a men theorist, a di ; and here he loved \i< gaze n the bright sea. and plan expe-. THE READING OF PAUL AND VIRGINIA, HOMEWARD. 309 ditions of republican colonists to such lands as he paints in his expeditions ended in the air. But he himself went to Mauritius,where
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. MOl the vermilion of tin- sky. The boys were sober at the thought thatthi> was their last day in Europe, and that they were now t<- return• the s< Master Lewis, were the favorite haunts of the author of Paul and Virginia. 11< was a men theorist, a di ; and here he loved \i< gaze n the bright sea. and plan expe-. THE READING OF PAUL AND VIRGINIA, HOMEWARD. 309 ditions of republican colonists to such lands as he paints in his expeditions ended in the air. But he himself went to Mauritius,where he lived three years. On his return to Paris, while the bright-ness of tropical scenery still haunted him, he wrote Paul and Vir-ginia. When Corneille, the great Corneille, as the popular dramatistcame to be called, read his masterpiece, Polyenete, to a party of fashion-able literary people in Paris, it was coolly received on account of thefine Christian sentiments it contained. The criticism was that thereligion of the stage should be that, not of God, but of the a bishop present took this view. Bernardin de St. Pierre was as sharply criticised when he firstread in public his beautiful romance of Paul and Virginia. It wasat a party given by Madame Necker. At first, says a writer, everyone listened in silence; then the company began to whisper, then toyawn. Monsieur de Buffon ordered
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