Paris of to-day : an intimate account of its people, its home life, and its places of interest . since Maria passedthrough it with the waxen tapers for the lasttime. Why is it that as it played a joyouslyvulgar air which would put gaycty into the heartof the faubourgs, its refrain went straight to mysoul and made me weep? This is exactly the same method of givingimpressions as that of the painters who tri-umph to-day—Whistler, Puvis de Chavannes,Menard, Dauchez. An entire school has fol-lowed Verlaine and Mallarme, from M. Henride Regnier, extremely classic in inspiration,extremely colorist in
Paris of to-day : an intimate account of its people, its home life, and its places of interest . since Maria passedthrough it with the waxen tapers for the lasttime. Why is it that as it played a joyouslyvulgar air which would put gaycty into the heartof the faubourgs, its refrain went straight to mysoul and made me weep? This is exactly the same method of givingimpressions as that of the painters who tri-umph to-day—Whistler, Puvis de Chavannes,Menard, Dauchez. An entire school has fol-lowed Verlaine and Mallarme, from M. Henride Regnier, extremely classic in inspiration,extremely colorist in method, down throughMoreas, Kahn, Laforgue, Stuart Merrill,Francis Viele-Griffin, to the very latest men—AndreRivore, Fernand Gregh, Andre Dumas. Pierre Loti (Pierre Viaud) really belongsamong the poets. He is the greatest artistof all the men of letters. Words come to himno matter how; he expresses all his emotions,his sensations, instinctively, without the leasteffort. He belongs to one of the Huguenotfamilies in La Rochelle, but spends most ofhis time in a quaint place in the Basses. «8 Co - I., S s THE MEN OF LETTERS. 105 Pyrennes, where he has a beautiful Moorishhouse. M. Edmond Rostand is rather a pupil ofLeconte de Lisle than a symbolist. I fancyhis immense success in Paris has come notonly from the fact that he was born a poet anda dramatist, but that he fell in with a dawningwave of tendencies in the public. There is anunderlying current against naturalism, end-of-the-century-ism; a leaning towards the oldliterature of noble emotions—movement, loftyideals, pathos and fire, such as we find in Cy-rano. Look at the popularity in Americaof a certain sort of historical novel just , clever man that he is, foresaw this—he told me so—he made up his mind that thetime had come for a theatre of the olddrama of emotion and action, and the successof the Porte St. Martin proves his far-seeing-intelligence. M. Rostand is a man of great es-prit. I dont see why
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