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did not, one may be sure, fail to impress Chateaubriand. 

 " L'auteur," wrote the reviewer, " a su repandre sur ses pro- 

 menades solitaires, un charme qui attache le lecteur a ses pas." ^^ 

 Bartram still travels " charmingly " in the pages of Chateau- 

 briand. 



Other Continental Writers: 



No one has as yet studied the influence of Bartram on French 

 literature generally or on German literature. Through Chateau- 

 briand French writers became aware of the American landscape, 

 and their own work in this direction often displays a strong 

 Bartram coloring. German writers, too, through the work of 

 Zimmermann, could not help being aware of Bartram's descrip- 

 tion of the American scene. That the influence of Bartram on 

 the literature of France and Germany is likely to have been con- 

 siderable is indicated by the wide interest in America in both 

 countries and by the translations of Bartram's Travels into the 

 languages of these countries. In fact, as Professor Lane Cooper 

 has remarked, " it would not be surprising if careful search 

 revealed an interesting set of transatlantic literary relations 

 wherever this remarkable work found susceptible readers, say, 

 in Holland, Germany, and Sweden also." ^^ Such a careful 

 study is a task in itself, and the preceding pages, it is hoped, 

 strongly suggest that such an undertaking might prove fruitful. 



La Clef du Cabinet des Souverains, No. 733. 

 The Nation, February 23, 1905, p. 152. 



