Excerpt from Émile Augier

Professor Brander Matthews, in "The French Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century, " wrote what we cannot but believe to be his most delightful and serviceable book. Dipping into it from time to time since the first careful reading, I for one have never found myself disappointed, so that in furnishing here a few suggestions for the study of Emile Augier (1820-1889), by way of introducing the following efforts at translation of one of his masterpieces, nothing better could probably be done for the average reader than to remind him of the fifth chapter of the above mentioned book, which, while less epigrammatic and brilliant than its fellows on Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas fils respectively, appears to be written con amore and has about it something of an indescribable persuasiveness, due perhaps to the very sobriety of its enthusiasm.

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