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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 48, 4 September 1891, Page 25

The Jesnit publication Let Etudes Beligeuses, contained in a late number a criticism in which Pere Btienne Cornut analyses current writers in a manner not flattering to the Mauspassants and the Zolas of the day. Novelists, journalists and dramat ; n authorities come under the head of the '"literary malefactors," wtn.se work he dissects. He cill9 Maupassant " a venomonous gold-fly whose novels are bo many crimes. Some of the terms applied to others are untranslatabe. Zola is a monomano caprographe. The fashionable " Gyp " (Vicomtes^e de Martel) is as a writer " mischievous cowardly, and tame.' Cutulle Mendes as compared to the Marquis de Sade, and given a hint that he ought to be enolosed in a modern Bastile. As to the publishers of these writers' works, they are considered no less culpable than the authors and are dabbed " dealers in poiaon more guilty than Iraustc." Considering that the works thus condemned from the literary food of the majority of French reading people, it is easy to see that the Etudes Religieuses is not amicably viewed by the vulgar press. Happily Earnest Renaa comes in often for the attacks of this critical organ, which numbers thirty-eight years of existence, including the ten during which it ceased work after the expulsion of the religious Orders. X Ladies, for afternoon tea use Aulsebrook's Oewego Biscuits ; a perfect delicacy.