By conventional standards Jean-Marie Mathias Philippe-Auguste, Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was an utter failure as a dramatist in his lifetime. His first plays were issued in editions so small in number that almost no one knew they existed. Of the...

Acknowledged, even lionized, during his own lifetime by an elite circle of writers for his genius, his spellbinding talents as a storyteller, and his resistance to positivist lessons of progress, Philippe-Auguste, Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam sank...

Even the most base schemes of human beings are preferable to the most exalted tropisms of machines. --Philip K. Dick "How's this!" to ART [NATURE] loudly said, "How's this! ungrateful creature! Profanely thou hast dar'd to tread Thus in the walks of NATURE....

*RUGBY UNION There was good and bad news for Wales yesterday ahead of their first Test against South Africa here on Saturday. The good: visiting coach Warren Gatland was hailed as the best in the business by his opposite number Peter De Villiers;...