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...Walter Pater's ideal conduct as set forth in Marius the Epicurean...
Professor de Sumichrast addressed the Cercle Francais at the Colonial Club last night on "La Commune de Paris, 1871." The address was followed by a reading from the "Pater" of Francois Coppee...
...character of Mr. Rose in "The New Republic," written by Mallock. Pater's beautiful book on the Renaissance, and his enchanting volume of imaginary portraits, show him at his best. This unquestioned masterpiece, however, is "Marius the Epicurean," which, to a well tuned mind, is one of the most beautiful, suggestive and inspiring books in the English language. It is not the philosophy of the book, but rather its pictorial qualities which make it attractive. In contrast to Matthew Arnold, who wished to make the best things prevail, Pater dwells upon the best things, without trying to make them prevail...
...Henry James, the third of the third of the apostles to the Philistines, we find a man as little of a reformer as Pater, but differing from him in his great love for the present. Most of the best imaginative writers of our day have received a word of praise from Henry James. He is as dangerous a model for young writers to follow as could well be found. He has so many subtle things to say that he often becomes deeply involved in the saying of them. In "The Tragic Muse," Mr. James's best known novel, he divides...
After the talk Mr. Copeland read Matthew Arnold's "Requiescat," and selections from Pater's "Marius the Epicurean." Mr. Copeland's next lecture will be given in Sever 11, on February 12. The subject will be "The New Woman...