FRENCH ACADEMY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1622, 13 December 1912, Page 9

FRENCH ACADEMY.

On. October 31 the IVenoh Academy elected two new members to the chairs left vacant by the deaths of M. Henry Houssnye and General Langlois. The voters wore thirty in number. Among those who did not record votes were: MM. Bourget, Barres, Bostand, and Anatole Prance—the last-named an incorrigibly absentee Immortal. The result of the election was, of course, a foregone conclusion. The hero of Morocco, General Lyaatey, was elected to the Chair of Historian, Henry Houssaye, nnd the philosopher, Emile Boutroux, author, among other works, of the "Contingency of tho Laws of Nature," and studies of Pascal and William James, succeeds the famous tactician, General Langlois. It sounds charmingly paradoxial, but it. is just the academy s littlo way. When tho time comes for tho two new members to pronounce the customary eulogiuins on their predecessors, the Immortals will listen with quiet relish to a soldier discoursing on philosophy, and a philosopher expatiating on military taoties.

In the CO.MFETmONS Tour DEPORTMENT -will Count. • SPECIAL LESIONS for intending Competitors, and Special Exercises in Relaxation and Flexibility £or Pianists and Violinists. MISS- MARGARET -NEUMANN, Teacher of Physical Culture, ftouth'fl Buildines, Foathorston Street