French Literary Studies

A RICHLY colored style, melodious and suggestive, is the outstanding feature of this volume. Professor at the University of Dublin, the author is not lacking in knowledge and penetration of his subject, but nothing could be less academic than his manner of approach. It is an impressionistic criticism that justifies itself by rising towards the level of the literature which it treats; it is an atmospheric mingling of the critical and the creative breath, a sympathetic interference in the per...