Ernest Boyd

All his life Maupassant had a fierce, almost morbid hatred of personal publicity, and even went so far as to quarrel with his publisher when the latter issued an edition of his "Soirees de Medan" containing as a frontispiece an etching of t [...]

When Latin was the international literary medium, the world was geographically a small place. When that language was succeeded by French, the world of culture was still small enough to present a certain homogeneousness. As a young American critic rec [...]