| Show J French Nobles Noble Ridiculous Protest Aga Against Pantheon n for Zola fIt Per Our London d Literary Letter Leder Special Corro CiON April 1 In the Uio Kly J 1 LONDON L sian old IB is till still of ur goes oas on elm In iii Inthis iiiI this Ihl I It Is am mu t sphere ho UJ I at RI time the Ih rumpus that IH Is being raised over time the tit It f his III mortal immortal ro cc romain main to te the th If it ho ii hud hail 1101 not written his celebrated loH loiter letter r 1 accuse secured the th retrial of ur Dreyfus no storm would have lotte raged around I his hll name Concerning oll hIs bin books there thela will bo hI of ot opinion lint Jut of Franca there Is no III differ difference ellen ence of ot opinion an 1111 to tho time part ho hu played JIrI In righting tho time wrongs of nr It this union unfortunate It stamped him as nM a II lucre hero anti worthy of or being bellig honored UM an such And yet cl such match Is the Irony Iroll of or fate ate It II IK Is I of this heroic work that thI protests have boen raised against his hilmi torment Interment III In ln time tho 1 lIch TIme The climax of oC the Ih ridiculous line how however ever eor has imas been achieved by tIme tho Due tin mum lie He It Is 11 thai tho grandson of or Marshal I Marshal I annea raMs In iti the Pantheon nut If I the thc duke can camm help It hits bid bones boneR wont May timer thorn after get ReI In iii He lie has Ims written a grandiloquent letter to M 1 time the Prime minister de he demanding manding that he W tl x allowed to take them away awn After Arte telling what u it gb HOUR li man hN hili grandfather wits was anti with what whitt extraordinary pomp his imis body budy wits was borne In triumph to time tho Pantheon bo lie goes on Tho Thu Pantheon whose facade fal still bears boars the tho words Auit funds Hommes ua hAt Pa trIo is Fante sante waa was then worthy worth to 10 receive and to ke i this coffin cortin Now this with time the Ironic facade Is I about to 10 re 11 receive Zola tho the of ot the Hie 01 French h ham army am In hum th thu mime of nf thai tho th of my may III family of my friends of ot nil alt who lImit tho memory of ot my muy Ill Illustrious ous alienator lor I protest and amuil I tusk n k for authorization to 10 transfer his bis hotly body to time the cemetery to tho thu Ih family ly is vault where his hi heart already rests II sIK The state which has hM not mit feared to rob oh thu Iho dmd will not dare 1 I 1 would believe bellec to 10 dispute their remains romo Heir H fh of lit thy the name aflame guardian of ot tho traditions of ot it Marshal It Il wn was for COI me inn to tj daunt hU his remain and anel to 10 refuse henceforth for him an honor which would uld only nn bo ho boan 0 an all Insult to 10 his past U t Is III n a duty that I mid and a 0 right that t I I HISTORY IlI P The Time duke says bays thoU that all the time i or 1 f his II bum st rl 1111 II family Cu nu I ly uru greed agreed It that thai tho tIme remains of his renowned ancestor muni not lIot be lie contaminated by tin Ilia pros Pres s once of corpse under time lilt same roof I If f SI M 1 lulls tells him ha e I can COli bury his lOs grandfather bo hue will 11 do so 80 O nt lit alice Anti And If M Clemen Clemenc c cau says aur he lie cant be lie will lure hire ox ex expensive pensive lawyers and start a ru local legal tight light U lt Is II a Il pity JIll there Is no 1111 way Wit of or litter Inter Interviewing viewing the Iho ghost hlat of Marshal I innes on Ott the tha subject He lit would probably express tho time opinion In itt the lime choicest French that his hI ducal grandson 1 is IH making an muss ass of ot himself I f But th It dead have havo hover nover rested wry very I securely In lu tho Ilium Many who have havo been burled thIeve havo hl 0 been Ien l un till unceremoniously ceremoniously kicked out by h tho victors in rt rC revolutionary struggle And Amid his history histo history tory to has bus a 11 trick Irick of repeating Itself CRITICS vs PUBLIC Which of or the time two Is III right tho critics nr ur the th public That Is I tho the query which locking Hocking I apro apropos i l r pos po 05 of uC If lh th fact that tho the critics spoke slightingly of ot hi imis hll first literary All Men Mell Are Arc Liars Darn which lots has reach reached reached ach achet ed et a 11 circulation of oC copies cople while a n later inter novel Mistress Nancy Moles Molesworth worth Irth which they timey the commended c did thu not sell anything like as O well w lI Mr Mt h Hocking does IUIS not answer his Imis question tint but he ho drawn 11 the obvious Inference that what whit tho hue critics pay sity 01 does not count clun for fill much with the time public after nil all As 1 regards time the merit of or the tho two 10 books hooks concerned ho agrees with will the tho critics Hut But tho the circulation of or Mimi MIs tress trew Nancy Nanc has scarcely reached hed of that thai of or the tho old older older er el book Perhaps tilt the latter owes oWeR H nv mCI uIO of iii Us Its success I to Its It I i title tithe That ThILl was tas tIme the publishers idea I have got gutt nt a it story tt 0 1 but hut I 1 got Jol gota n II title tithe Mr lh flocking told him What hitt Is III It bout about I he ho won was asked The lime uC of pessimism was wall vi the tile response Hero Is 11 your title tithe then ho Imo answered right away All Men Ion Are Aio le OPINIONS Directly alter after Its publication Mr 11 Hocking says suy I was polled with let letters uis tromp from nil all ovum 0 time the lin l hug ing world By B 13 ono one post 1051 I received two letters which show how strikingly dif IlIf different dIfferent ferent Is lit time tho way In which tinny many leo peo leopa ine liim Ih of nature read books a pa of or them said Unit 1 I mi util writer r of ot ono lime vomited suicide anil condemned mite ml very vory strongly for it while time the other thanked me for having opened time tho c e H be to ii tho pernicious of f young men macut lint which haul had been poisoning society odelY In lit connection I 1 recall another allot he Incident lion tion with this book ook I which was both boh amusing In iii n find and Australia s nt me 1110 a Ii 1 copy cop of oC a n dolly daily dul paper which time trial of a who bad huaI been brought bought up tip beCome tho tIme liLa law courts In III one ono of the cities and amid I found round guilty of or swearing to 10 a I hood hotal On asked what he had hll to tim ho replied say SO by way of or Justification Joseph Jo hiLts has wild that all men are arc liars and I dont want to 10 lie be an ex ox exception to 10 time tho rule rulo N HAINES VOGUE Probably law few f W tin authors thorn tire 1110 less lens IlI In Indebted for Cot a I their success to 10 time tho critics than Hum Allen Ilaine the fI h novel novelist novelI 1st I I who hl just i another book under time tho th singularly rl unattractive title tI II 1 Neither Nor 01 Yet Vet her hI books have havo reached l time tho of or copi cupl i counting American uI H her Imor well In the timi Ih for to I the blue hum ribbon of ot f lh time tho book bouk world Jn In 1111 Mite I life II fl Allen Alien II R Mrs 1 IM Silo She U Is I one olle of or the tho rare mno I Cow fuw who have found H awaiting thorn thom on their first I entry into time the world of or letters Her Hell earliest curliest effort Yn t t It a story torr deal tied dealing ing lag with life lit on Oil a n little Inland off iff tho titu roast cast wits wan writ written ten Ian for Cor tho ho national eisteddfod of or 1891 ISI i ami won the th offered for fill thin the lost lIst talc till descriptive of ot Welsh life and all char character acter Three h years lalor Il tor cutile her novel A i Singer of ot which over n a quarter of a it million copies have havo boon be I II sold up to th present lIt time lilac WHY wit WADI IX IN 1 am Somo 8 lIno of ot Allen Alien critics bavo huu taken ho to tn task III It htmL her book they y ill ny sty aro too lieu Her de lIe fem Cellist Is I that im Is 11 fully mire are dark ale on Oil tilt the t Ii of it r Wales us liS on ott tho l of nil 1111 countries hut but slip I do Io not consider It necessary to wade through tho time mil mul 1 lying underneath tho timo stream whoa when there theio are It fco so o many ImmittI growing glowing on onIl Its Il banks ready to 10 be culled Tho The daughter of a tl a busy US solicitor the Ih novelist sIlent III 10 all nil her luei days in tin till heart of Wales lUll and so J came to mci know aspect of or life ilfe among time tile I peasant class q To that happy Inti Intimacy macy sue she ho remarked to 10 an mimi In I owe omee 0 the thu power e I of laying before my nm III English renders however h Imperfectly tIme th and clinging to rural life In Wales aies which I still spend much o or of my timy time lime In Iu my country there then be being ing 1 ng scarcely one scene celi depleted depicted In Itt my books which 1 I havo not personally wit at witnessed I 0 I or I nt itt It t least known to have havo ha 0 occurred S u |
