M. Le Roux delivered his second lecture in Sanders Theatre yesterday, on "Flaubert, comme Peintre de la France du Nord."

M. Le Roux began by recounting a visit he made as a child to Gustave Flaubert, when he was received in such an encouraging way as to cause him to decide at once on a literary career.

The most characteristic difference between the social life of the North and the South of France is the difference position of woman in the two parts. In the Germanic and Norman Northern sections, she occupies a higher place, and the home is in a more moral atmosphere than in the South. After the revolution, the farmer desired his wife and daughters to be the intellectual equals of the noble women, and in this way the classes became much intermixed.

Flaubert, in what is perhaps his best known novel, "Madame Bovary" studies the problems arising in the second half of the nineteenth century from this mingling of classes. His conclusion is that the effects of too rapid culture on the middle class French woman are pernicious. In this M. Le Roux agrees with him; for, with an ancient race, every-day education must always precede instruction in less tangible matters. Flaubert treats the subject firmly but reverently; his host of imitators, however, have cheapened his art, lost the depth and retained only the sentimental and superficial.

M. Le Roux will give his next lecture, "Daudet, comme Peintre de in France provinciale du Midi," on Monday. He will deliver an address this afternoon at Dartmouth College.