Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-10-06

Emile lola was born in Paris, April
| 2, 1910, and was educated at the Lycee
St. Louis. He began life in the pub
Fishing house Of Messrs Hachette &
Gle, but in 1866 passed from that to
the Figaro for which he wrote some Of
his early studies of Partisan low life.
His first novel was The Fortune of the
Rougons in 1871.
The last notable example OF this
side of his career was shown in the
scathing indictment brought against
the anti-Dreyfusards in the letter to
President Faure, published in the Au-
rore of January 10, 1898, by which the
entire aspect of that celebrated cause
was changed in a day.
In 1871 began tbe great series, in
emulation of Balzac's Coincide HUI
maine, which has for it's full title, Les
Rongons-Macquart, une Historic Nat
| urelle ct Social dune Mantle Sous lie
| Second Empire. Into this came sto-
| ries of human depravity in every cir
| Gle of society, and two Of these, Land
and Money, serve as prefaces to the
| idealistic works which make up The
| Four Evangels, Fruitfulness and La
! hOr. Here lola breaches the gospel
! OF Fourier, writer on social topics
/ whose influence, outside of France,
has been overwhelmed by Karl, Marx
and his disciples.
| In addition to this vast amount of
| il o1;
than ten works in comment and criti-
cism are to be enumerated, ranging in
date from 1866 to 1881.
| These, too, have broadened Zola's
authority though quite unknown to
most English speaking people. The
most inclusive and representative Of
them is the last, Documents Litter
aries, Etudes ct Portraits In them
may be read the whole theory of 70
! las naturalism.
And finally, many of Zola's works
| have been presented on the stage
through Europe and America Renee,
LIE Ventre de Paris, Germinal and, no
tably, L'Assommoir DRINK, in which
| last Charles Reade had hand.
Zola's influence upon contempora-
neOus literature has been profound,
| though generally indirect. No one in
England, with the sole exception of
! Frank Norris, has taken him frankly,
in both manner and matter, as mod
ell. Generally speaking, it is to be said
that he transgresses the essential rule
OF art which requires more than lit
eral transcript of life avoids scenes
disturbing and disgusting, breaches a
gospel of beauty and goodness, and Of
/ higher truth-in a word, is at war
with the plainness, the crudity and
the universally of democracy.
lola entered into the defense Of
Dreyfus with great spirit. He declared
that the first court-martial committed
| an illegal act, though in good faith, in
| convicting an innocent man on the
! strength of a document which was
kept secret. He challenged the per-
sons whom he accused to bring him
before the court that he might have
the opportunity to prove his accusa-
lions. The minister Ct justice or
! dered his persecution on complaint of
the minister of war. Students of Paris
made demonstrations against lola
and anti-JeWish riots followed.
The prosecution of lola was based
on single item in ZOIa's long ar
raignment He called over a hundred
witnesses, including members of the
government and the military authori-
ties, who were in Office at the time of
the trial of Dreyfus. M. Delegorgue,
the president of the court, would not
allow any questions to be put regard
mo The nrnenc11tinn Of Drnrrfn1r W.