...practising in his novels the theories that he advocates in his critical essays.3 Also related to Taine, though fundamentally antagonistic to Zola, is Brunetiere....more popular with the public than with his fellow critics.8 He is the most thoroughgoing of critical evo1 It would be unjust not to name, though but...

...comparing than on enjoying or helping others to enjoy. Professor Wells, of Harvard, says : " Brunetiere shares with Zola Taine's objectivity and pessimism...made him more popular with the public than with his fellow-critics." In 1897 Brunetiere, leaving France for the first time in his life, visited the United...

...practising in his novels the theories that he advocates in his critical essays.* Also related to Taine, though fundamentally antagonistic to Zola, is Brunetiere....a learning alike minute and immense, borne lightly bv a style that is alwavs keen and cutting and sometimes superciliously contemptuous, has made him...