DOUMIC, RENE (186o-1937), French critic and Acade mician, was born in Paris, and after a distinguished career at the Ecole Normale began to teach rhetoric at the College Stanislas. He was a contributor to the Moniteur, the Journal des Debats and the Revue bleue, but was best known as the independent and un compromising literary critic of the Revue des Deux Mondes. Many of his critical essays are reprinted in Etudes sur la littera lure f rancaise (5 vols., 1896-1905) ; Les Hommes et les idees du XIXe siecle (19o3), etc. He died in Paris, Dec. 2, 1937.