The neo-classic movement in Spain during the XVIII century

Robert Edouard Pellissier

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91G38LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS
UNIVERSITY SERIES
The Neo-Classic Movement
IN Spain During the
Xviii Century
BY
ROBERT E. PELLISSIER
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA
PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY
1918STANFORD UNIVERSITY
PRESSFOREWORD.
Among the magnanimous young Frenchmen who, at the first news
of their country's peril, hastened to her aid, was Robert Edouard
Pellissier. Although all his mature years had been spent in America,
and although he held an honorable and secure position on the far Pacific
coast, he unhesitatingly made the great sacrifice, and, after two years of
service, met a soldier's death on the Somme. The ship that bore him
across the ocean carried five hundred compatriots of humble station,
waiters and cooks who had made their home in New York. His first
winter was passed in the Vosges, where, in the intense cold, hundreds of
his companions were disabled by frozen feet. The military casualties, too,
were severe. In that season his battalion lost twice as many men as it
had originally contained. Being finally wounded himself, he was allowed,
on leaving the hospital, to follow a course of instruction that prepared
him to become an officer. It was just after the completion of those studies
that I saw him, in Paris, for the last time, in 1916.January, Radiant
with health and cheerful courage, far stronger than I had ever seen him
quite satisfiedbefore, he was with the new mode of life which at first had
seemed so strange. The trenches, he declared, were very comfortable,
the food was excellent, and every care was taken of the men.
I had known Pellissier for many years. Primarily bent on the
physician's career, he entered the Harvard Scientific School, where he
graduated in 1904. Persistent ill health, however, obliged him to relin-
quish his first intent, and he turned to literary and philological study.
Other members of his family had devoted themselves to letters : he was
a cousin of Georges Pellissier, the eminent critic, and a brother of Pro-
fessor Adeline Pellissier of Smith College. The years 1908-09 and
1910-11 were spent in our Graduate School, and he received the Doctor's
degree here in 1913. Meanwhile he had achieved success as a teacher.
Harvard for while the benefit of hishad a collaboration, but most of his
work was done at Stanford University, where he soon obtained a con-
genial post which enabled him to combine study and instruction. At the
time of his departure he had reached the grade of Assistant Professor.
Quiet, modest, serious, thoughtful, conscientious, gifted with rare peda-
gogical skill, he won the respect of all he met and the aflPection of all who
knew him. The present volume, composed during his busy years of
teaching at Stanford, shows the systematic thoroughness, the clearness
and breadth of view that marked his scholarship. May it help to keep!
4 THE NEO-CLASSIC MOVEMENT IN SPAIN
green the memory of one who gladly surrendered to a righteous cause a
life full of promise and already rich in service
C. H. Grandgent
Cambridge, Mass.
March, 1917ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
indebtedness Professor D. M. FordI wish to acknowledge my to J.
of Harvard University, to Professor A. L. Guerard and to Professor C.
G. Allen, both of the Leland Stanford Junior University, who had the
kindness to read portions of this study before it was typewritten.
gentlemen, errors in the lan-Thanks to the advice given me by these the
guage and in the subject matter of this volume were made less numerous.
The subject of this study was suggested to me by Professor Irving
on literary criticism since the Renaissance and by Pro-Babbitt's course
literature.fessor Ford's lectures on the history of Spanish
Robert E. Pellissier
Stanford University, California
1913January 26,