Word: rochefoucauld
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sounds like two rich warm opening chords to a pastorate symphony. One regrets the absence of the pastorate symphony. "Ma Contemporaine," a translation from Beranger, is not well done. It lacks entirely the grace of the original. Following this there is a well-written and interesting study on La Rochefoucauld. The quotations are chosen with a great deal of diserimination and accomplish their object of illustrating the points called up-a very rare thing, by the way, in student essays. "Mr. Hutton as a Critic" is too pedantic, and what good thoughts it contains are almost hidden by the insufficiency...