UNIVERSITE DES LETTRES FRANCAISES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1019, 7 January 1911, Page 11

UNIVERSITE DES LETTRES FRANCAISES.

A great opportunity is being offered to those Londoners who are anxious to improvo themselves in some of those subjects which give a graco and a charm to life, . and take people out of tho dull routine of every day into the realms 1 of art and literaturo (siiys a writer in an English paper). Probably every one knows of tho existenco of the Universite des Annales in Paris, which has an enormous membership, and has done perhaps more than, anything else to make literaturo a living force amongst educated people. Tho opening of tho Universite des Lettres Francaises, under the patronage of H.R.H. Princess Christian, his Excellency M. Paul Camboil, and an. influential committee of both nations, will make an epoch in the educational history of ' London/ The Universito will hold conferences (there is no English word expressing" something between a lecture, .a club meeting, and a discussion) on various subjects, including French'., literature, as compared with that of. England and Germany, his.tory, tho history of art, of music, and of song, elocution, and the arts of women (taste,' decoration, fashion, society). These conferences will bo held by eminent French men and women, members of tho Academy of the Universito do Paris, and correspondents of the principal French and Belgian papers. Besides this there will he monthly conferences for thoso ■ who are moro advanced or who havo not tho timo to attend. weekly. These ■ wi]l bo held by such, men and women a's M. Marcol 'Provost', M. Maeterlinck, Mrne. Alphonso Daudet (who is on the committee), M. llichepin, and others equally eminent. They will be, of course, extremely interesting, and it will bo to many a unique opportunity to hear these great mon talk on great subjects.

The woman who flirts with the truth soon finds herself in love with falsehood. Sarah Bornhardt and Ellen Terry are both suffragists, hut while tho former takes no active part in tho campaign, the latter sneaks on the subject continually. In lier present trip through America Ellen Terry has lost 110 chance of expressing her sympathy with tho movement, and she declares that many of Shakespeare's heroines would havo been suffragists if the <iuestiou had been known in their daj>