To be serious seriously is the way of mediocrity. To be serious gaily is not such an easy matter. To look on at the pantomime of things, and to see, neatly separated, tragedy here, comedy opposite--to miss the perpetual dissolution and resolution of the one into and out of the other--is inevitable when eyes are purblind. _Diis aliter visum_. Olympus laughs because it perceives so many capital reasons for pulling a long face; and half the time pulls a long face simply to keep from laughing. I imagine it is in some measure the Olympian manner of seeing which explains the gay seriousness of the work of Octave Feuillet. Octave Feuillet possesses to an altogether remarkable degree the art of bei…
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