The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-10-16
MANY MOURN AT
AUTHORS DEATH
Death of AnatOle France
Brings Pail of Grief Over
Literary Nation.
WORKS WERE CLASSICS

In the passing of Anatole France,
Monday, there is lost to France and
60 the whole world the genius Of a
man who, as interpreter of the French
spirit during the past so years, has
been without a rival. He wrote for
France, but the whole world read him,
and the world united in commencing
him in heartfelt phrases on the oc-
casion of his 80th birthday, April 49,,
1924.
Anatole France showed to the world
the real France, compassionate, de-
voted, brilliant and spiritual, and he
has been described as the ultimate
towering of French genius. Ramsay
Macdonald said of him in 1924: There
Ia not any living writer who is SO
fully appreciated in his own country,
or who has interpreted in so durable a
! manner the luminous beauty and hum
an sympathy Of French genius"
The writings of Anatole France are
known for their imaginative and deli
cate grace, the simplicity of his style
and it's beautiful translucency. Of
imagination France once said at is the
imagination, with its lies, that sows all
the beauty and the virtue in the
world We are great only through our
imagination"
Was Literary Master.
France was great French literary
master, yet he was very human man,
given to gossip, serious about small
things, light-hearted about weighty
matters, tolerant, kindly and just, and
q most charming conversationalist.
Thus he. came to be called "le bon
maitre" by his friends.
France achieved his wonderful mas
terry of the French language by hard
work 1t is related Of him that his
first proofs from the printer were only
the beginning. He rewrote his matter
time and time again, wedding" as he
called it, changing sentences ruthless
~, and with shears changing the po-
sition and sequence of sentences. cit
Is a matter" he once said to a friend,
"of tearing up the ugly that which,
whose of which, and of thom.'
"These, my young friend, give stiff
necked air to the best styles. Danish
also the semi-colon, that bastard per-
iod which is. neither period nor COM
ma. 1t was exactly the thing for an
age Of compliments, harangues and
funeral orations. 1t marked a rest be-
fore the period. Now we are in the
age Of the telephone and the telegraph.
Shorten a sentence whenever you can.
And one always can. The most beau
tiful sentence? The shortestl
Had Brilliant Style.
Beware of sentences too spacious,
too melodious. First they cradle you
and then they rock you to sleep. Pay
no attention to transition. The best
way to hide from the reader the mo-
ment of passage is to jump quickly
without beating about the bush"
France was an essayist, critic, q
novelist, poet and he wrote also
several historical studies. He was
made famous in 1881 by the publica-
tion of the Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
but the best of his many works, in the
opinion of his admirers, was La Rotis-
gerie de la Refine Pedauque. That's is
numbered among his historical studies
and lie Lye Rouge is sentimental
novel. All through his books there is
ever the beauty of his cultured taste
and his great literary skill, the result
in combination of many qualities, fell
lefty, grace, the harmonious grouping
of words, perfect measure.
Anatole France was an officer of the
Legion of Honor and member of the
French Academy. In 1921 he was Civ
en- the Nobel prize for literature, and
journeyed to Stockholm to receive the
award personally from the hands Of
King Gustav of Sweden. His real name
was jacques Anatole Thibault, and he
was born in Paris on April is, 1874
the son of a bookseller. He grew up in