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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.
M. Chevrillon has much less accent, and his talk is more flowingly and convincingly English; for which, no doubt, a boyhood partly spent in England accounts. While for vivacity and ease there is little or nothing to choose. But to these two distinguished and accomplished men England and America owe a real debt of gratitude. They have not by any means always approved of our national behavior.
M. Jusserand during his official career in Egypt was, I believe, a very candid critic of British administration and British methods, and in the days of our early acquaintance with him I can remember many an amusing and caustic sally of his at the expense of our politicians and our foreign policy. M. Chevrillon took the Boer side in the South African war, and took it with passion.
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