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his highest powers, as a critic, a thinker and a man of letters, in what 

 he wrote concerning matters hterary, pohtical and rehgious aUke. 

 He died at Paris, the mere shadow of a body enshrining the full power 

 and brilliancy of his mind, on December 9th, 1906. 



II. 



Among the numerous notices of Brunetiere, and of his strong and 

 copious literary work during a full thirty -five years, three stand out, 

 as deeply sympathetic. Immediately after his death. Monsieur Paul 

 Bourget sent Le Temps a letter of tenderly personal reminiscence; 

 this is published in Bourget's "Pages de Critique et de Doctrine," 

 (1912) I, 282-293. Less than a month later, the Revue des Deux 

 Mondes, for January, 1907, published an analogous paper by the 

 Vicomte Eugene-Melchior de Vogiie, like Bourget a fellow academician 

 and a personal friend, though in this case the friendship began after 

 Brunetiere's reputation had become established; the article is 

 reprinted in Monsieur de Vogue's "Les Routes" (1910), 202-225. 

 And in the Revue des Deux Mondes (1 March, 1908, and 1 April, 1908) 

 Brunetiere's pupil. Monsieur Victor Giraud, published a more careful 

 study of the master's life and work, which was later included in 

 Monsieur Giraud's "Maitres de I'Heure" (1912), 59-137. All three 

 of these articles are critical in that excellent sense of the word which 

 implies earnest effort sincerely to set forth what is best in thought 

 and in life, with no sentimental suppression of what is not quite so. 

 All three are affectionately sympathetic. Together they give an 

 extraordinary impression of a character which all must respect, even 

 though now and again disposed hardly to agree with the conclusions 

 honestly and combatively set forth in its profuse and scattered utter- 

 ances. 



The power of summary possessed by Monsieur Victor Giraud is 

 held by those whose works he has had occasion to summarize remark- 

 able for intelligence, for sympathy and for justice. In the case of 

 liruneticre, his summary is based not only on love for a teacher who 

 stimulated him when he was a student, and thereafter was a personal 

 Friend and guide, but also on thoughtful study of everything that 

 lirunetiere had published. "Thirty-two volumes," he tells us — 

 mostly collections of articles for the Revue des Deux Mondes, etc., — 

 " two pamphlets, five editions of (French) classics, a hundred articles 

 or so scattered far and wide and never collected, represent the visible 



