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Show A Badly Mixed-up Family. When Brunetlere was In this country, about five years ago. he complained bitterly, bit-terly, in his lecture on Zola, that the latter did not present a faithful picture pic-ture of the French people. They were not so gross and so hopelessly buried in vice as the realist painted them. Zolas had overdrawn his picture and pretended to lift the nation from a slough into which it'had by no means fallen. As might have been expected the prophet climbed down in the process. pro-cess. The respectable admirer of this depraved writer will find it difficult to abide the conditions of their darling's will. Men reveal themselves in their testaments. By the terms of M. Zola's we learn that his wife was not the mother of his children. His fortune goes to his barren consorts but his mistress is not . forgotten. If Mme. Zola wishes to befriend the children of her husband, she will have to bestow be-stow her wealth upon the offspring of her outlawed and guilty rival. It will be difficult for decent worshippers to keep among the gods the author of this family mix-up. Catholic Transcript. |