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As it was, Taine's great work made a tremendous impact on the intellect of his generation, and nearly all that has been written on the Revolution since his day is marked with his mark.
During this my first stay in Paris I added the impression of Taine's personality to the wealth of impressions that I took back with me from Paris to Copenhagen.
It has always been a question with me, which of two French friends is the more wonderful English scholar M. Jusserand or Andre Chevrillon, Taine's nephew and literary executor, and himself one of the leaders of French letters; with whom, as with M. Jusserand, I may reckon now some thirty years of friendship. No one could say that M. Jusserand speaks our tongue exactly like an Englishman.
Jusserand's Literary History of the English People. Taine's English Literature. Courthope's History of English Poetry, 6 vols. SELECTIONS FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE : *Pancoast and Spaeth's Early English Poems. *Ward's English Poets, 4 vols. *Bronson's English Poems, 4 vols. Oxford Treasury of English Literature, Vol. I., Beowulf to Jacobean; *Vol. II., Growth of the Drama; Vol.
"Have you read Taine's History of English Literature?" he asked. "No, I don't know it." "Ah, perhaps you are one of those who regard it as superfluous to learn about anything foreign. We have enough of our own, is it not so? It is a very widespread opinion, but it is a mistake." "You judge too hastily; that is not my opinion." "Oh, ah. Yes. Good-bye." And our ways parted.
But granting that, we must own that though different from M. Taine's, Prince Napoleon's historical method is not much better; that though in a different manner and in a different direction, it is neither less partial nor less passionate: and here is a proof of it.
Calm and severe, he saw in Napoleon only Taine's 'condottiere' who kicked Volney in the stomach. Everybody wished to define the true Napoleon.
"Really," said the painter to their caller, "you are not uneasy for the safety of Mrs. Taine's portrait, are you, old man? If you are, of course " "Damn Mrs. Taine's portrait!" ejaculated the man, rising hurriedly. "You know what I mean. It's all right, of course. I must be going. Hope you have a good outing and come back to find all your art treasures safe."
Taine. Which brought from his daughter the usual protest, "O, papa, don't," As Mrs. Taine approached the house, Sibyl Andrés busy among the flowers that bordered the walk heard the woman's step, and stood quietly waiting her. Mrs. Taine's face was perfect in its expression of cordial interest, with just enough but not too much of a conscious, well-bred superiority.
If M. Taine's book were a piece of abstract social analysis, the above remark would not be true. But it is a study of the concrete facts of French life and society, and to make such a study effective, the element of the chronicle, as in Lacretelle or Jobez, cannot rightly be dispensed with. Let us proceed to the chief thesis of the book.
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