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Excerpt from La Frontière
It is searce necessary perhaps, to call attention to the perfect art of the author in giving to the somewhat abstract idea of love for the symbol of country and na tion an individual life and a personality so distinct, as we find them in this story. And this art works with the simplest means. The idiot, the deserter, the private soldiers, the Officers, and, above all, the high - bred cap tain re¿ect this life and this personality, or, as in the case of the first two mentioned, serve as foi1s for the idea. The higher the organism, the more profound the re¿ex, the greater the affinity between the symbolic being and the sentient soul. The process involves a great psychological problem, but this problem is fully explained by the action of the individuals that appear before us. All this is the more remarkable as there is not a dull line in the story. It proceeds rapidly, with an almost dramatic directness, and when our attention is.
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