The sun., 1884-05-04

;ssiss sS.o Hl:ssst ~ 90 susSer q 1fissiHisss
e frayst even ph.semssic ard hs K, only becomes
g VIZ and
chiromancy happening nil 70 arise. Wo had = grand
: $s fsS ri ,S :sS
work Of cont1ried. ssiistad lines oross,ns
and rncrossins. troubled. nervous md In;
passions; Misirai's hands are ,traversed BY
regular lines without complications; tho lincs
Fl .n " n a Hra nSS% pnSs SaSs
inark"bly devslon"l. nanoly. tho line which
T ss '., ND i"S %orT IT, IT, peo and Of
Mistrnl. ~ th"ir most ,lustrious m"m6cr. have
Misiral wish"1 Wished . resuscitnt" tho Ircv"SYti ss
distinct language. some concluded that he
wished to K rr"v,nnce ,nc o, rr1vSmss
land. The Fslibrige. too. have been accused OF
boing political mud rrnctiohary assoc,iat,on, 1850,
versnrirs; the one Kind. the, literary ndycr.
Which they cnnsiIsr pnoriis and ephenerai;
the Other the poiiticans. . regarL .is r.sustii..
t"n sa k nc B.snmn sn m @
Of modern ideas. Behind these local languages
Ygo Tho, ,Ga,holi Chonans 10 Brittany and the
IInKitimists In the south. There nre, II r. true
Y. wno T0Sa s
docile servant OF reactionary PASSIONS. but the
majority Of them protest ngalns any such ao
d"ss no, oSs the Ssrabc p 3 1854 I Il hts hear! !
SsnG but Ms'rr NJ frSssnqs S"si snd as not
Kou. VIC Se does n"t sa wsh sG
kenS; No.. saSs Mls!rsI. sI' ali Wish is Hui
they could learn their local history. The lovo
O. O. tho village ste"ple leads on to- patriotism.
little tnwns Of Greece Greece. an and that prSparoI % them en-
all the better to march togethor % AGAINST their
s spx Tnes So s %
the intention OF maintaining any, themo. As
a ci1tzen iam The. the most inderendcnt iG Of mon.
temperate monarchy. Noveriheoss. my ,iieai
my Provence the greatest ross!bie sum Of lib
erty. autonomy. and nntinnnl dignity"
, A. 70 ,he question, m, whether the revived Pro-
exis,ence or not. who shall deciie2 The Pro-
yencai was co9icmnod. its ndversarles say. tho
domination from Paris to tho Alps and tho
Pyrsnees. At present tho struggle Is no long
bstwe"n tho Fronoh s!i the other European
lnnguns"s. Modern France must have ono
language. and AL intellectual force must DO
efforts oi tho Proyenc, muse aro lost to tho
country bocause they do not appeal to tho great
arn amateurs of things raro and precious. and
to rhilolo%;sts who delight in linguistic curl.
ar" ihe bru tai Jewellers. Mistrai and vii With him i'm
many enllghtened spirits estnem that unity is
s DaH T sfy literary npa and s n
exercised by Paris over the provinces is Mother
6.nsfoal nor desirable; ! was yer, maei,
aud Damdet protested tho other night against
tho literary oppression Of the provinces by
ridiculous phenomena OF French provincial
life. with Its narrownnss and stagnntion and
w,scesa ssS nps 2 and af SS"p n MeSs
alton OF IL" local iaiects Of France by til. Ian;
utility Of tho comparative study in tho schools
g. 9th; th% dialects ,,a M and tho natanal ianxnags A.
would love tho great fatherland all the better.
Whatever the result OF thls renaissance Of
curious ant worthy OF attention. OF one thing
We may b. certain, and thS. is that these local
s TO ts %re emo
and have been abandoned to the pensants and
common peopc. which fact accounts for thcir
parts OF Brittany the priests nre Obliged still
e preach t to thsi. congr"gnton,s, ,, in "a G"ltic
Of the Dasnnes. The iahabitants Of Asace-
Lorraine speak dialect resembling TINT OF the
SWAbiNn m mInneSlnkora In French Flanders
there are local newspapers and popular books
printed IN Wailoon and Picard In Burgundy
south of tho Loire tho prasants still speak tho
various PrnvenGal dialects OF Potion. Dauphiri,
!imogos. Saintnuge., Pergord. Gascony,. and
Lnnguedoc. besides the Proven9Al Of Malllane
and Orange, which has remained the least
written by Mistrni and MaiIinnc. 1t Is trie
TINT since tho sixteenth century the French
peasants have not been much troubled until
ntcly by the visits OF Govenrnm"nt school in
spectorS. THEODORE CHILD.