The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1883-06-10
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cs>ssAesss ~ Jslss 0asasau's Chasr-Assse'
ualsvy. DssAss. esd MsSsss.

French Academy are never talked ABOUT when
they are forty. but only whom they are thirty
nine or less. Tho death Of Jules Sandcau hav-
ing reduced tho number to thirty-nine. there's
at tho present moment much talk about the
Academy and about the future Acsdemiciaus
Who will succeed Jules Sandeau2 OF all the
probable candidates. who has the beat chance.
and who 10 who2 The candidates likely to
stand arc Edmond About, Ludovic Halevv. Al
phonse Daudet. AugustS MaQuet. FRANCOIS
CoppG Mgr. do Lavigerie. the Comic de Crosnao.
and Alfred Michiels. author OF voluminous
books OF travel and art criticism. The throe last
nAmcs. however. may be eliminated: their bear
ers stand no chance.
Nowadays 1t Is rare TO lnd tho name Of NJ
About mixed up with tho literary history OF his
country. BY dint Of letting everything slide In
turn. NJ. About has become Pashn. stout
and heavy Pasha. A university man. prize
winner. and archaeological student at the
School OF Athens. no threw the university over
board and became a witty novelist: having es-
tablished his reputation as delicate iitterdte1'
u little Votaire in short NJ About threw over
literature and became a politician. created an
immense sensation with his pamphlet on the
Roman question. and made himself fine lot OF
political. religious. and literary enemies. who
unanimously hissed his play. Gaetan8." at the
Odeon in 1862. What storm this "GaGtana"
brought down about NJ. Abouts ears! What
torrent OF invective was directed against the
amusing and facile writer whom everybody
had hitherto compared to Yoltairc! Yes.
up TO that time Nj. About's name was never
printed In Il newspaper without being coupled
with that Of .yoltairo. He WINS a :, voltairee
but he WAS always vol,nire. so exquisite WIS
his wit. After the kissing Of "Gnetana." NJ.
phieteer and iournalist in the Constiiationnei.
He was pstted ut the Tuileries aud at COM
pfEne; he gloriils.d the empire IN MS volume y,
of Prince Napoleon; he won the admiration of
Sainte- Beuye by communicating to him the
reputation ratiled Gy an articiS from the pen
tack K" UPON II. de NeSsrlerfe. the friend u the
Princess Mathude. caused him to iall into dis
at apS ns
| tinued to be vague and diversified until after
critic Sarcey. he founded the Conservative Re-
pu6iiean napGr he M1eme Siec h. About the
Paris Directory, and what, with tho profits Of
this Indispensable publication and the big divi-
asd iaz ana p shS father s Of eight shlsn
About owns fine house al Paris q Rue de
Douai cha,eaa 1T saSs ;r and another ao at
humored. NJ; About has had a career fun Of
SURPRISES. He begun brilliantly and with every
For fifteen years he is an active and pro
life poiemist. panphleteer. novelist. phi
| iosOpher. and economist: then suddenly,
~ Il ho were cleaned out and pressed
| dry. he ceases to produce. disappears in the
hubbub Of 1870 and rcnpprars only from time
| To time M u rather worn out polemist. But ms
a story teller and wit NJ. About has been dead
for ten years. and he now lives principally. rs a
iterary m nr it is to be- feared that H. About
has blown his candle out and gone to bed.
ssres 10 to Sfa ns s ABOUT has
| many friends. more cnomics and no partisnns.
eo sSan i Sad IN When
stood for the chairs Of the Due do Broglie and
A. de Pongerviie. His political, religious. and
When ono enters the legion Of men Of the
Merovinginn locked poet. his secretary. Al
phonse Daudet-" When one enters the legion
,ns y C o IsSS
sweep his Shoulders, In 1874, when the Aead;;
RisicTr" Aiphonss Daqdet., who had BY this
time become n husband and father. cut two
inches G Ara d nc w 5scams nti%ss
who enr sSTy hn tbs friend Emile z9a
that delicate master. Edmond de Goneour #.
remaining himself. has worked d during i the
past past, eight years always with tue ,prooccu-
Alphonse Daudct figures in The will OF Edmond
ae Gonconrt as one of the six foundation mem
| nneIs oi tle acauemy Goncourt. to the eStab-
isinent OF which the whole fortune OF NJ do
G9neourt aud the proceeds of his matchiess
collection Of ,eishteonth century drawings.
aftor his death. At the present moment seq.
| ing ms reputation as u novelist at it's apogee
! taken counsel. and he has CONS to the conclu
Son s tnat now or never he must stand for the
from the Goncourt Academy he has ni 5er taeas SO
teel the ground. and since the death OF jules
SSa a;r he has hid hai an inch cut OF his
ma externally he is very, presentabIs can.
Hidate for Immortality. AI,honse Daudet may
b9 regarded Us second favorite.
-, The first fuvorite. both OF the public and of
ti az, press seems TO be Ludovic Halivy. libre-
h ,sa IT. ordinary "a, Gf olenbaeh creator 81 opera
Froa." Ia vie parisienne. and La csa h""
family. father, mother. nnd daughters; author
o. q. cnoice and deiicnte studies OF modern
author Of the d.licious!y sentimental 'fAbb,;
Donstantin.,, and OF tho touching narrative OF
g, GrHuutte; eoGnent PRESCRIPTIONS and b.
-eshnihes o1 reaction against the abOminatiOits
powerful Kerurdrs Dr,f lonirs he has friends ri as
camp Of Israel and In the a,bourr Saint (ier e
main. At the Academy the dukes will vote Tor
iGh-toned wit: the dramatic authors viii vnte
Tor him. because he il a colleague; the uniyer-
sbs men nsnh alone >, might show Iaor Sill is is
h;ti6vy he Is discreet, polite well bred and has
powerful! rei,ftions. lis chances arc excellent
A., Auguste MaQuet. the veteran dramatist il
The surviving partner OF the Arm OF Aisxander
Dumas and Company. The Academy refused
20 elect Dmas; how oan it elect his faithful
upon tsclfp Still his seventy wears bis am
pe"rnnce of a grand seiGneur. and the support
OF the dramatic authors at the Academy
HASs'sis DUNES .H;., the y"qpssr. sardqu Octave
PonSet nigh. DO something for him II.
s Miaaust N dangerous and isrseyering out
ladies' saH poet: h. win certainly go into the
academy one day; but Whether it will be this
yea or not daponds entirely the Inrguys
cupola Of the Institute OF France
m rne r French rene academy at the present mo-
TiIR born in 1926 De Vel Caste born in 1901
Noaalles; born 1894 ;C,lvil!ier- Feury. bora 1907
M.Sior hugo 6orl 1902; Desire Nisard literary
SHq9vh, dranatist; born 1907; the Comic joseph
s FaIo and l.terasHr born 1907 the conte
1872: USmill, oof bou Isl; De laprade born |
Ff Sn born 1872; jules Simon. born ISL; |
!, Ohm d,emoinne, born 1915; Emile Angler
33orh ls3o; Camille koussetv born 1921 tho Due