M. Le Roux

M. Hugues I e Roux, who will deliver the fifth annual lectures of the Cercle Francais, will arrive in New York tomorrow on the steamer La Gascogne. During his stay in this country he will deliver about a hundred lectures under the auspices of universities and other institutions, and will visit over forty cities in the United States and Canada. Among the more prominent colleges which he will visit are Yale, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, Williams, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania.

M. Le Roux is today one of the most eminent novelists and lecturers in France. He started in literature with the principle that a writer, before he gives form to his own experience, should study every mood of human activity. He therefore commenced with the study of low Parisian life; and then, ascending the social scale, he finally entered the society of most of the sovereigns of Europe. This inquiry has given him an insight into all classes of life which very few men have held; and it has in consequence made him an exceptional authority on human nature in its varying forms. He has, however, devoted most of his time to journalism and to the writing of light novels, contributing frequently to the "Temps" and "Journal." Among the books which he has written may be mentioned the following: "L'Enfer Parisien," "La Russie Souterraine," "L'Attentat Sloughine" "Un de Nous," "Mederic et Lisee," "Chez les Filles," "L'Amour Infirme."

Great as M. Hugues Le Roux's successes have been as a journalist, novelist, sociologist and dramatist, it is as a conversationalist and orator that he is particularly noted in France. His language is full of poetry and color, and his diction is extremely clear. He has already spoken in all the capitals of Europe with a success which will undoubtedly be equalled in the United States.