M. Le Roux gave his final lecture, "Tendances des Jeunes Romanciers," yesterday afternoon in Sanders Theatre. Some of the writers he discussed were Pierre Louis, Maurice Barres, Paul and Victor Marguerite and Jean Lorrain. He divided the writers into different schools, but said there was a general tendency of all which could be seen during the last ten years. This tendency was marked by a change from writing for art's sake alone, to writing for a purpose. Instead of placing their scenes in Paris these writers removed their stories from the capital. Barres for example preaches country life and M. Le Roux, believing that the French should know more about the outside world, especially wished in his own works to make his people familiar with foreign lands. He spoke of the virtues of patriotism, and in closing paid a grateful tribute to the great vigor of American ideas.
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