Excerpt from Le Luthier De Cremone Et Le Tresor That famous critic of literature and of himself had said that in his youthful poems he had tried to be original in his own fashion, humbly like a bourgeois, watching closely the soul and nature, naming things of common life by their common names, but trying to relieve the prosaic side of these humble details by de scription of human sentiments and natural objects. What sainte-beuve had tried to do, Coppee attained in such Collections of poems as Les [ntz'mz'tes and Les Hum eles, in such prose tales as Contes rapz'des or Leagues et Bret/es, and in no small measure in the comedies before us. Occasionally his lyrics touch a higher tragic key, but this his professed tragedies rarely if ever suc ceed in maintaining. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.