“MADE IN FRANCE.”
Under the title of “Made in France” H. C. Bunner has gathered a number of short stories, all founded on tales by De Maupassant. Several have suffered so great a sea change, however, that the original writer, if he were alive, would not recognize them. In these about all that Bunner has borrowed from the brilliant Frenchman is what he calls the “ethical situations.” Others bear evident traces of their French origin. Mr. Bunner explains the motive of his novel scheme in these words:
“I have selected a few ethical situations from among the brightest of Maupassant’s inventions, and have tried to reproduce them, not as translations, but as English or American stories based on a Frenchman’s inspiration, and I have done this with the sole hope of making that inspiration clear to people who will not or can not read Maupassant in the original. If through the new climes, the new times, the new changes, the new worlds, indeed, into which I have moved his people and their adventures, you catch a better glimpse of the best fancies of M. Guy de Maupassant than you can get through the misleading mechanism of a literal translation, I shall be glad, indeed.”
There is no question of his success, for nine out of ten of his readers would find De Maupassant less amusing than Bunner. The volume is very cleverly illustrated by Taylor.
—San Francisco Chronicle.
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