"Fruitfulness" by Émile Zola contains charming pictures of homely married life, and delightful glimpses of childhood and youth: the first smile, the first step, the first word, followed by the playfulness and the flirtations of boyhood, and the happiness which waits on the espousal of those who one truly loves. The punishment of the guilty is awful, and the triumph of the righteous is the greatest that can be conceived.
