France is cured, or blessed with the most uniforming
spirit, so far as prose or language is concerned, it
good writing in French is nearly always the writing that
most approaches a norm (whereas in English the best stylists
are, or have been those who have most nearly made a language
of their own, a peculiar and special medium); only perhaps
among the French
in France wd. you find a considerable writer (
writing
says, as has Anatole France (in I admit an advanced year
of his age) that all peculiarities of style are bad.

But one finds a Marcel Proust to ridicule the
Anatole Proust's excess or access of acamism,
rewrk; and one and one finds
against the french purists, perhaps because of them,
the greatest tolerance in the world, the greatest number
of people grated to any one race who are willing to let a
man think and write as he likes.

A. and B.

I have remarked elsewhere that strictness in form
ineer or major form permits freedom of detail, and that
that strictness of detail drives to inner freedom.

France and America, perhaps kin, in that Fr. not one
race, great melting pot, Gaul, Visigoth, Roman, Phoenician,
Celt, Norman, force of race, making individual,
reason of academism, standard coin, racial uif. continuous
energy individ. concentrating race intelligence, never
meltable to national mould, of mind,

,porpusness of Am. . W.C.W. Spanish core through
which current mag. ideation wont pass, but most clot and