IT was a November evening. Outside, the rain was sweeping in gusts against the windows; but indoors, with the curtains drawn and a fire burning on the hearth, my little sitting-room was warm and ...

ANATOLE FRANCE—Edwin Preston Dargan—Oxford University Press ($5). When Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault) died in 1924, the younger generation of French writers swarmed to the scene ...

The last of the sages, he Has been called. An old man in a grey dressing-gown and scarlet skullcap, with objects d’art, with his disciples about him, in his home on the Avenue du Bois, Anatole France ...

M. ANATOLE FRANCE is a writer who is continually saying something. His thought is always breaking into bloom. He is not one of those who, on the ground of weightiness of matter, or other supposed ...