Emotion Abroad

The German Government has sent its condolences to the French Government on the death of Anatole France, and Messrs. Quidde, von Gerlach and Stoecker have sent the following telegram to Mr. Paul Painlevé, President of the Chamber of Deputies, asking him to forward it to the family of Mr. Anatole France
"As President of the German Peace Congress, still under the impression of the twenty-third Peace Congress which has just been held here, we express our deep sympathy for the loss that France and the world have just experienced through the death of the great poet who was at once so French and so human."

In Italy, the press continues to devote long articles to the deceased master.

In Spain, the Vos speaks of the sensitivity and erudition of Anatole France, the Heraldo writes: "He was a master of intelligence." For the A. B. C., Anatole France, "fervent patriot, in love with the prestige of his country despite its panache, citizen of the world, never departed from traditional French politeness. His battle banners always had the softest colors of understanding and tolerance."

Vienna, the Nouvelle Présse says that Anatole France embodied the "world" mission of the French spirit. The Neue Wiener Tagblatt publishes a great article by Mrs. Richter, professor of Romance philology, in which Anatole France is called the undisputed king of prose.

In Holland, newspapers of all opinions agree in seeing in the deceased writer the pure mirror of the literary genius of France; many strive to show what treasures of goodness were the depths of this great skeptic and say that he will have been one of the noblest and most generous spirits of democratic France.

Some Catholics criticize him for the irreligious and revolutionary nature of his work and his ideas.