By Emile Zola BARON DE TRENCK

One day, it must have been I suppose the 31st of August, a rather strange telegram in French reached me for transmission to M. Zola.

Well, the gentleman first asked for me, and on learning that I was absent, he explained that he was a friend, a private friend of M. Zola, whom he wished to see on an important private matter.

At a time when the school of Zola was at its climax, Stevenson opened the windows and let in the pleasant breeze.

I shall wear my cotton frocks, and give myself up to enjoyment, lie on the deck and look up at the blue sky, too deliciously idle even to read the last horrid thing of Zola's.'

There was likewise a great Paris moralist called Zola, and a strange old American father called Walt Whitman.

One is reminded now and then of the German captain quartered at Sedan, in Zola's "Debacle," who, while conscious of the strength behind him, yet wanted his involuntary hosts to know that he, too, had been to Paris and knew how to be a galant homme.

At the end of last century he emerged from his literary seclusion in Wales and became active in current affairs; he was one of the leading English champions of Dreyfus, and obtained the warm friendship of Emile Zola.

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Mrs. Morgan was decided in her choice of a dwelling here by the euphonious address, Merton Avenue, Something-or-other Park.' Zola's wonderful skill in the animation of crowds has often been commented upon, but it is more than doubtful if he ever achieved anything superior to Gissing's marvellous incarnation of the jubilee night mob in chapter seven.

Zola in literature, Strauss in music, the French school of paintingthese reduced Realism ad absurdum.

Zola is perhaps unduly depreciated nowadays, but certainly, if Carlyle's "infinite capacity for taking pains" as a recipe for genius ever was put to the test, it was by the author of the Rougon-Macquart series.

R57162, 16Jan50, Margaret Minor Caskie (W) NANA, by Émile Zola.

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of Cyrus Porter & Zola E. Harvey; & Jessie Spicer Zerner

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of Cyrus Porter & Zola E. Harvey

By Zola Helen Ross.

Zola Ross (A); 15Sep76; R641648.

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By Zola Helen Ross.

Zola Helen Ross (A); 15Jan75; R595707.

Perhaps, however, this influence led to lack of faith in his own work, to his loss of an ideal, which Zola thinks the real secret of his sudden change from novelist to journalist.

"L'Enfer" has been more widely read and discussed in France than any other realistic study since the days of Zola.