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Show HONOR NOT FOR GEORGE SAND Famous Author Might Have Been Crowned by French Academy If 8he Deelrtd. George Sand came very near being an academlclenne, and had she cared for what would have been, especially In those days, an overwhelming Conor, It would almost certainly jiave been awardod to her, not perhaps so much because of her literary fame, but because be-cause of that finely tomperod mental quality, that broad humanity, which mado her equally dear to the Utopians Utopi-ans and to tho realists of her day. When writing her a chafing letter concerning tho rumor ot her possible election, Flaubert paraphrased Saur-In's Saur-In's famous lino to Mollere: "Won no manque n ta glotro; tu manqunls a la notro." Innumerable French women writers have been "crowned" by the French academy, In tho majority of cases tho work so honored, especially If a novel, Is Judged from tho othlcal as well as from the literary standpoint; stand-point; tho honor sometimes carrloa with It a small sum ot money, nnd alwnys makes a considerable differ-encn differ-encn to tho snlo of tho book. |
