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"Several, of course, are very well worth a place in a volume such as this Putois and In the Desert, for instance. But surely there is too marked a preference for the semi-symbolic, the demi-semi-fantastic, the exer-cise in poetic prose? A reader might well ask: 'Where in this volume is the great 19th century naturalistic tra-dition of French fiction?' Surely far too many of the stories you have chosen possess for the reader of to-day a stilted quality, or else are mere anecdotal or lyrical trifles?"

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