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I don’t know how it has been with
others, but so far as I am concerned,
most of my knowledge of French his-
tory, especially of the times of Louis
XVI. and the Revolution, was originally
obtained from the novels of Alexander
Dumas. They awoke in me an interest
in that exciting period, and I afterward
read a number of books that treated
of the terror and of the last days of
the King, but in none of these histories
did I find any - contradictions of
Dumas’s narrative and none of them
were half so interesting. If I had it to
do over again I should tackle my
French history through Dumas, and I
would advise every other man to do
the same.
In reading the essay on the “Club of
the Jacobins” in “Essays on French
History” by J. EE. Farmer, ’91, (New
York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons) I was
constantly reminded of Billot and Ange
Pitou, and all the rest of those bold
fellows of Dumas’s, who were wander-
ing about Paris in those famous days,
and I found that I could understand
Mr. Farmer’s discourse as well, and
was almost as familiar with his topic,
as if I had read the long list of “‘Au-
thorities Consulted’? with which he pre-
faces his essay. I felt almost a sense of
personal injury, too, at not finding
Dumas’s name upon this list of authori-
ties.
Of the two essays in Mr. Farmer’s
book, this one about the Jacobins is un-
doubtedly the more interesting and will
surely prove the more popular with the
general reader. It gives a very clear
idea of the original “‘Tammany Hall,’’
and explains fully the many motives
and accidents that led up to the aw-
ful events of 1793. Mr. Farmer’s essays
ought to be welcomed by students of
French history, too, because aside from
the information they contain, they are
full of suggestions for further reading,
that one might not receive in other
ways. For instance, in his brief de-
scription of the membership of the
club, he gives about two pages of
names of some of the leading lights,
qualifying each one, and many of these
qualifying sentences are sufficient to
awaken an interest in the individuals,
that will fall nowhere short of a peru-
sal of their biographies. That sort of
thing is valuable. The historical es#ay
in itself, being of necessity brief, can-
be of small use unless it is suggestive,
and Mr. Farmer has certainly succe@d-
ed in making his papers such. 4
In the first essay, on ‘““The Rise of the
Reformation in France,” the field was
not so rich in men and deeds, but *he
paper shows careful study, and to the
man who wishes to work along that
line it will afford a basis for much 4d-
ditional investigation, pointing out, ‘as
it does, the main lines along which the
movement developed and _ touching
elaborately upon the pivotal periods
It is surprising, in these days of the
renaissance of book making, that any
publisher in so large a city as Read-
ing should turn out such a brochure as
‘While your Coffee is Cooling,’ recent-
ly published by William McCormick,
’87. The book is of an inconvenient
shape and is bound in a sort of crinkly
paper that looks like a piece of white-
washed frizzled beef, and it is tied at
the back with a bit of red ribbon like
a schoolgirl’s prize essay. I have not
seen anything so badly gotten up ina
long while. The text is a collection of
short essays by ‘“‘George Gordon.” AS
the author prints his name on the
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The man who wishes to do anything in
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