ANATOLE FRANCE AT HOME.

Shannon News, 5 October 1923, Page 4

ANATOLE FRANCE AT HOME.

SIMPLICITY OF GENIUS. Mr Lewis May, the translator of rnanv of the Anatole France volumes for the Bodley Head, 18 on a biographical study of the great French author, gives the following word picture of the master, as he appeared in his country home near Tour* “When I try to »um up my impression of Anatole France as b was when I saw him at La Bechellerie, I ,think the first things that come into my mind are his greatness and his simplicity. My general impression of the material things that surrounded the old man in khaki dressing gown, black felt slippers and crimson cap, was that they were, so to speak outward and visible of that in ward grace and symmetry, the mesure Tnd ‘clarte’ which makes and beautiful his literary style. Mr May goes on to say thafthe simplicity of genius-invests him. as with a white , "There is something winning and childlike about him, something that recalls his own Choulette m The Red Lily.”