“Manual of Political Economy,”—Henry Fawcett.
Henry Fawcett, a famous English political economist, was born at Salisbury, August 26, 1833, and died in Cambridge, November 6, 1884. His publications include: “Free Trade and Protection,” “Indian Finance,” etc. His celebrated work, “Manual of Political Economy,” won for him great fame.
Roger Bacon treated more especially of physics, but remained without influence.
“Lectures on the History of Philosophy,” tr., Haldane and Simpson, Vol. III. p. 92,—Hegel.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, an eminent German philosopher, was born at Stuttgart, August 27, 1770, and died at Berlin, November 14, 1831. Among his writings are: “On the Difference Between the Fichtean and Schellingian Systems,” “The Orbits of the Planets,” “Phenomenology of the Human Mind,” “System of Science,” “Principles of the Philosophy of Law, or the Law of Nature and Political Science,” “Encyclopædia of the Philosophical Sciences,” etc.
If we compare Daudet with Zola, we shall see that it is Daudet who is the naturalist novelist, not Zola. It is the author of Le Nabob who begins with observation of reality, and who is possessed by it, while the author of “L’Assommoir” only consults it when his seige is finished and then summarily with preconceived ideas.
“Les Contemporains,”—Jules Lemaître.
François Elie Jules Lemaître, a famous French literary critic and dramatist, was born in Vennecy (Loiret), August 27, 1853, and died in 1914. He is the author of five volumes of literary biographies, “Contemporaries: Being Literary Studies and Portraits.” Among his plays are: “La Revoltée,” “Deputy Leveau,” “The Kings,” “The Pardon,” etc. Also: “Médallions” (poems), “Petites Orientales” (poems), “Corneille and Aristotle’s Poetics,” “Myrrha Stories.”
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.
—Niebuhr.