New-York tribune., 1901-11-24
PARIS.
FAVORABLE FRENCH COMMENT ON SEC
RETARY HAYS SPEECH
REVIVED INTEREST IN BoFR wAR-NEw
PRODUCTIONS AT THE THEATRES
THE HEINE MONUMENT.
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Paris Nov 23-The speech of Secretary Hay
In New-York at the Chamber of Commerce dlh-
ner is reproduced in all the newspapers through
out France and is interpreted as clear anu
honest statement Of President Roosevelts for
sisn policy. The publication Of Secretary Hays
sreech comedies in Paris with the delivery OF
the addresses at the Musee Social by NJ. Rloot'
CORNER Premier; NJ. Siegfried, Senator recently
returned from q visit TO America, ana M Ma
aallier president of the Musee Social, on the
extraordinary industrial development OF the
United States. The speech elicits from the news
papers and prominent men OF every shaoe VI
opinion the most favorable comments The
-tDebats' refers to Secretary Hays utterances
as q hymn in commemoration of the economic
strength of the nation The "Journar' char
ecferizes the speech as sound business poilcy
based upon an honest desire for peaceful pros
perity-
The sale on the boulevards for the benefit OF
numerous committees established throughout
France in aid of the Beers. of the first chapter
bound in graphically illustrated paper covers, or
the history Of the Anglo-Boer War, written pE
the well known Partisan author j. H. Roshy'
with a stirring preface by Paul Kruger hlnseH'
causes marked recrudescence of public sym
pathy for the Transvaal combatants Inc
s.1our,,al" the "Eclair" the "Matin," the
seEcho de Paris" the journal des Debats,
the 'Iiberte" and many other newspapers
devote leading editorials to the review ol
Rosny's book utilized pretext for fresh
bursts of pro-Boer enthusiasm, which now
strongly manifests itself in literary circles, es-
pecially SO at the annual session Of the French
Academy yesterday, when Count Albert de NUN
delivered an address, according prizes AWARDED
under the auspices Of the Academy to the most
, sneritorious authors of the year. To cite one
among many instances which illustrate the treno
, of feeling here, CASTOR Deschamps, writing OF
the poems of Fernand Gregh, compares the
snontaneous feeling aroused throughout France
an 1895 by the Turkish oppression of the Greeks
with the emotion caused by reading the oally
kilograms from the seat Of the war in the Trans
raal NJ. Deschamps cites the writings ana
speeches of prominent Frenchmen during lhe
war for Greek independence, among Whom were
Chateaubriand Matte Brun, Benjamin Con-
stant Sebastian. Mile Georges, the actress'
Delacroix. the painter: Leclerc, professor OF the
Sorbonne. and Victor Hugo the then rising poet
Deschamps declares that the glory of poetry is
To give voice to the minority, when the minority
ss right and calls upon Fernand Gregh to COM
nnemorate viliebofs- -Mareuil Victor Hugo did
Colonel Fabvier.
The Frencb military experts consulted express
khe opinion that the Transvaal war must last
et least two years longer, because II has become
n war of determination. In diplomatic circles
fhis renewed fervor for the Beers is viewed with
Academic sympathy, which cannot find any ex-
preston in practical politics CASTOR Deschamps
by the way who will be recoilected as the HNoe
aecturer at Harvard last year, has been called
10 the professorship Of French literature at the
College Of France, and as Emil Deschanel
father of the President of the Chamber of Depu-
ties and an eminent professor, has asked to be
relieved OF half his course Of lectures, which he
has delivered at the College Of France for
twenty-five consecutive years and a half, his
work will be taken over by CASTOR Deschamps
whose Wednesday conferences on the poetry OF
khe sixteenth century begin next week.
Massenet'e opera, ''Griselidis,' the words
Of which adapted by Armand Sylvester and
Eugene Morand from Boccaccios familiar
diaeval love tale which, in the shape of a '-mys-
fery play" had considerable success ten years
ago at the Theatre Francafs. was received on
"wednesday at the Opera Conaique with enthusi-
ssrn by q select audience Of .irst nighters. This
evening the paying public. without sharing the
unstinted admiration OF tie connoisseurs and