The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-28
MIR. LEJEUNE,s LECTURE.
The NOveIists Jules and Edmond G0u-
court, Gustavo Flaubert, Emile
ZNla Rnd Cher hMIIAE.

court, Gustavo Flaubert, Emile
lola ana CherBuIiex.
Yesterday evening at Grunewald Hall Mr..
Leieune the distinguished French lecturer,
resumed his lectures upon the leading French
novelists Of the day.
He proposed to treat Of those who belonged
to the realistic school. such rs Cherbuliez
Jules and Edmond Gouoourt, Gustave Flau-
bert and the present regning celebrity, Emile
lola.
Cherbuliez was born in 1882, In Geneva. His
father, professor Of Hebrew and Sanscrit,
tune, which he soon aquandered. not, how
ever. In extravaganza and folly. but In study
AND In TRAVEL.
A graduate OF Bonn University, he studied
the abstruse philosophy Of Erickman, which
he pretends to have mastered-a rare and
wonderful achievement. He visited Asia
Minor and Egypt, and never wrote line
until he had reached the age of thirty. How
much better would It be had many others
done the same.
A man OF deep and profound learning, his
books are more popular among the men than
the women, although there are some pages
OF hie which would delight and interest many
of the gentler sex.
Jules and Edmond Goucourt were brothers,
and wrote together, and their style was 30
similar that 1t is matter Of impossibllity to
tell, upon reading their novels, where one
handed bis pen to the other. Only In CONVEX
sation was the difference perceptible.
SOME YEARS AGO
Jules died, and since then Edmond has
written but one book, and 1t probably Is the
last effort OF talented but misguided pen.
Talented only when coupled with that Of his
brother for the last work Ia inferior Ia every
respect to the previous joint productions
OF Che two.
n physician and d physician himself. 1t is
rare among the French that we find doctor
a novelist-and In his first novel, Mime.
Aubarry," Flaubert MANAGES to make the
physician appear very conspcu ,.tS
arsenic, and doctor plays very prominent
and very creditable part throughout the
novel.
Flaubert's language, while. being graceful
of being exceedingly correct. Why such men
should be refused admission
TO THE FRENCH ACADEMY
while others, totally unknown, glory In the
title OF academician Is q problem. the solu-
ton OF which would be perplexing and
tedious.
criticised by Sainte Beuve, and IL Ia through
this impartial and very fiattering notice that
Flaubert sprang into immense popularity.
Like Byron, he awoke one morning to find
himself famous. Two years elapsed and the
author Of the immensely popular Madame
Aubarry" maintained IN astute silence.
No one had seen him, none had heard OF
him, until one morning "SalambO," by Gus
tave Flaubert, was announced for sale.
THE PUBLIC FLo0KED
to buy 1t, and to the great establishment of all
IL was found to be as correct and minute q
picture of the people and the customs OF an
clent Carthage as mime. Aubarry" had been
OF modern France.
And thus Is II with him; he passes from
the modern to the ancient with the greatest
ease, and his facile pen is as much at home
among the ruins of Carthage, which his won |
derful mind peoples, as 1t is In the hustle and
the excitement OF modern Paris. His charac- |
ters are not imaginative, but real, his de- |
scriptions are vivid and true.
By all the younger writers OF the realistic |
school, he Is looked upon as the great master, |
and he In hs than, processes for George
Sand reverential feeling.
She is for him divinity. and her teachings
q religion.
WE REACH NOW
the writer who, at the present moment, fs
creating great stir in Paris.
Emile lola Is the pupil OF Flaubert, whom
ITO SblINtS D iiulltls, Dut, unllhc uOiuSiultI,
"tetiget sed non oYndsit"
His language, although powerful, Is not
correct, and his novels are far from being
good-not In literary point OF view. but from
moral standpoint.
He has thus far written seven books, with |
the promise OF large number to follow.
He has chosen as his models the exceptions |
In each stage Of society; his workingmen are |
drunkards, his gentlemen are spendthrifts |
and people OF loose morals. |
BUT, THEN.
az ne himself says, he must give the public |
the worth of their money, and were he to
present characters familiar to all there
Mould oe no need of buying his books When
a A. nlsiung 9 managerie we pay fee at the |
W. ,r ~ u 10 see some animal which we rare
IL u ns ana not to witness the familiar an |
49, y sle domestic cat or the watch-dog's
oo b.. t as1R on profound wisdom,
But still his works are hnrtf,,i o,,a ,,uos...,.
Eranab a slaaa4er an erroneous view OF the
h haemen ana convey false Impression Of their
1T IS NOT BY THE KxcEpr1oSs
that we judge rule; no more can seo,o,
humanity. eea'liels OF
In their search for wonderful truth H..