At one of the big secondary schools in Paris, at tho- Lycée Condorcet, extraordinary scones have been taking place. In the history class, M. Thalamas, the professor and a socialist in politics, made tome disparaging references to Joan of Are, whom he accused (40 it is ssid by the pupils) of immorality. The matter raised a commotion in the class itself and in the wider world of an enquiry, which is delivering ita report as I write, The students of the Lyobe, however, not perhaps having much faith in official enquiries, have their protests. They have Professor outside the college buildings and been escorted to poste for it, and they have Laid tributes of roses and lilies at the foot of the statue of Joan of Are on the Place des Pyramides. If-report is to be trusted, Professor Thalamas has been exceedingly unpatriotic in his observations generally on French history. fitz, with a hundred thousand mer during the Franco-German wer, he sug gested that the General was to be coi gratulated on not having allowed soldiers to be massacred. To troat in such a manner an incident, regarded as Gingraceful by the mass of Frenchmen, was not grateful to the ears of the sons ofa generation that fought bravely during the war.
A Students' Restaurant.
The Latin Quarter is just now in fall activity, all the schools of the Faculties being opened. Unfortunately, an interesting institution ministering to students exists no more. Irefer to the students' ce-operative restaurant situated in the Rue clu Sommerard. Three years ago it opened its doors; and.everyone imagined for it a long and prosperous career. The dishes wore of good quality and of the cheapest price; the restaurant was managed by students, who shared the profits amongst themselves and certain of the professors of the University who bad put in funds. Butthe, venture has not succeeded. Perhaps it was a too solemn affair for the gay and light-hearted denizens of the quarter that Miirger celebrated in his immortal pages of "La Vie de Bobéme"—the true "'Trilby." Anyway, the receipts of the restaurant grew less and lees; the variety and quality of the food diminished in consequence, and the eonsommateur became rarer and rarer. This term the doors have not been opened. What really was wanted to enable the restaurant to continue was grant-in-aid from the Sorbonne itself—a mensa academica—just as the University of Vienna, for instance, gives.
The Theatre of Capus.
The thestricsl season is of unwonted oiaise. We have already had three remarkable plays. M. Alfred on his way to join the Immortal Forty of the Acsdemy, has dropped in on the Académie Frangaise and has left his most brilliant comedy as a certificate of competence. It is entitled "Notre Jeu-nese," and is concerned to preach a more humane doctrine in respect to the natural child. M. Cspus presents on the stage father and son formed in the old school, and wishing to regulate the position bys money dole. On the other side, he ranges the women who pray for the adoption of the child as the is daughter of the house, The tendency of the French stage, especially the theatre of Capus, for years past, has eon in the direction of breaking down social barriers and of introducing into the heart of the most conservative class in the Western world, the French Bout new and widening ideas of liberality and consideration for the: disinherited of the earth. The other fine plays are' Escalade," at the Renaissince, by M. Maurice Dounay and " Ma-man Colibri" at the Vaudeville, by M. Henri Bataill Both these dramas are tone, that isto say, they those problems of sex somewhat tiresomely reiterated by the playwrights here, but they are undeniably lever frame literary point of view.
{aman -Colibri" especially—the work yung man barely thirty years of age—is remarkable for the brightness and vigour of its dialogue, though the theme—a mother who compromises herself with her son's friend—is disagreeably painful.
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