ZOLA, THE MARTYR TO THE DREYFUS CAUSE.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3835, 17 April 1899, Page 2

ZOLA, THE MARTYR TO THE DREYFUS CAUSE.

With oh aracteristic energy and industry M. Zola, quietly lodged in an English town, has set to work with his pen. He has under* taken not one but a series of three novels. It is to be the final completion of the familiar KougonMacquart series.; Arrangements have been made with a London publisher for the simultaneous appearance of the work in England and France. It is hard lines, which find some parallel in the case of Walter Scott, for Zola, approaching his 60th year, to find it necessary to begin work afresh. The prosecution directed against him as the result of his chivalrous championship of Dreyfus has cost him a trifle over £16,000; that compri&ed his whole funded fortune arid he has now to work again for daily bread. One who recently saw him in his English retreat says he is buoyed up with the hope that his embarrassment will be only temporary; hi% justification and his reward certain. He believes that before this year is out the French people will make the only amends in their power for the hurt and sorrow he has suffered by inviting him to return to his home in Paris, reinstated by a public subscription covering Ms money sacrifices. Meanwhile he is pegging away at his work, and has made considerable advances with his first novel.

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