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offspring and thus carry on the torch. Patemal love and filial ingratitude had often been pictured in literature — for instance, in King Lear and Père Goriot. But Hervieu, by portraying three générations, goes a step farther; he shows how one génération will not only sacrifice wealth, happiness, honor, for the sake of the succeeding, but will even sacrifice the life of the preceding. Based on fondamental principles, of universai and eternal interest, vividly rendered, La course du flambeau may justly be termed not simply Hervieu's masterpiece, but a masterpiece. G. N. H.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE A. Hervieu's Drahatic Works Point de lendemain, 1890.

Les paroles restent, 1892.

Les tenailles, 1895.

La loi de l'homme, 1897.

L'énigme, 1899. (First représentation, 1901.) La course du flambeau, 1901, Thêroigne de Méricourt, igoi.

Le dédale, 1903.

Le réveil, 1905.

L'armature (in collaboration with Brieux), 1905. Modestie, 1908.

Connais-toi, 1909.

Bagatelle, 191 1.

Le destin est maître, 1914.

B. La course du flambeau Editions consulted in preparing this édition Œuvres de Paul Hervieu, Lemerre, 1901.

Théâtre complet, Fayard, 1910.

La course du flambeau, in L'LUustralion théâtrale, 30 janvier, 1909. Ib., in Modem-Thiâire, Fayard, 1911.

lb., Lemerre, 1901 (1916?). ' ■ Copy in Library of Cungress has print

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