LECTURES BY M. FIRMIN ROZ
Through the kindness of Air. Edward Tuck '62, whose interest in the College is never failing, a series of six lectures in French was delivered here during the last week in February by M. Firmin Roz of Paris. The dates and subjects follow:
Feb. 21 — L'ideal classique et la societe frangaise au XVIIe siècle. L influence littéraire de la Cour de Louis
Feb. 22 — Le rationalisme français. les "Philosophes" et la Revolution.
Feb. 24 — Le romantisme français. Ses caractères historiques. Ses causes littéraires. Ses causes morales. Ses caractères nationaux.
Feb. 25 — Le realisme dans la litérature française contemporaine. Ses causes, ses effets, ses caracteres.
Feb. 26—Dans quelle mesure la litérature française est-elle l'expression des moeurs de la société française? Le roman parisien. Le roman provincial.
Feb. 27 — Le theatre d'aujourd'hui. Ses rapports avec les moeurs contemporaines.
M. Roz is making a tour of the United States, lecturing for the Alliance Française, through which he was secured to speak in Hanover. M. Roz has won honored recognition, both in his own country and abroad, for his literary and critical ability. A native of Limoges, Licencié es Lettres from the University of Paris in 1889, teacher in Paris for several years, he is now engaged entirely in literary work. He has been a member of the editorial staff of the Revue desDeux-Mond.es since 1900, dramatic critic of the Revue Bleue since 1909, and literary critic of the Revue Française since 1910. He is also a contributing editor of the Revue hebdomadaire, the Correspondent, the Journal des Débats, etc. He has translated into French Hardy's Judethe Obscure, Moore's Esther Waters, and, in collaboration, Emerson's Representative Men. He has also published critical studies of Sainte-Beuve. de Vigny, Tennyson, the contemporary English novel, etc.; his work of greatest interest to Americans in L'energie americaine, a volume crowned by the French Academy. Previous to his present tour of the United States, M. Roz has lectured most successfully in Edinburgh, Stuttgart. Budapest, Prague, and Geneva, as well as in Paris.
The College has been fortunate in its opportunity to hear M. Roz, and owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. Tuck for making this opportunity possible.
