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VICTOI HUGO'S NEW WORK.

Several of the Paris journals contain a brief

outline of the plot sod purport of Victor Huiro's new work,
"Les Travaillours de la Yea," which was published yes- 11

terday in three volumes. "It contains,' says the Tempe,
"two dramas, one representing the struggle of man withthe
elements, the other the everlaeting drama of love. (M-
-EW, the hero, victorious in the former, succumbs is the
litter. The scene is laid in Guernsey, St. Maio, and the
reefs of the Channel. Oilliett is in love with Dem-

chat* the niece and adopted child of Lethierry,
but does not dare to tell his love. Deruchette to
also lover, without avowing and even without comprehend- II
iog'fier feelings, the young vicar Ebenezer. Gilliatt is a
bold mariner, to whom love gives strength and courage to
socomplish a prodigy. The steamer Durande, belonging to
Letbierry and plying between Guernsey and St.
Mel., is supposed to have been lost on the rocks. I
Unaided, and at the peril of his life, he eaves the vessel,
I bat on reaching land he suddenly becomes aware of the
secret love of Deruchette. In the enthusiasm of his
gratitude Lethierry would give Gilliatt the band of his
daughter, but the noble heart of the seaman resigns , yt
itself to the sacrifice of its own affection. The hasty
steps which Lethierry took for the marriage of his adopted ;
daughter and Gilliatt, the latter directs to the celebration 11
of a marriage between her and Ebenezer. He is present at 11
the wedding ceremony, and conducts the newly-married I
couple in the Cashmire, which was to convey them id
from Guernsey. He then takes his position on k
a rook, which is exposed tat low water bat I
covered when the tide is full, and there he 'awaits bis
death while the Caahmire is disappearing from the horizon.
He watches the last speck with intense eagerness, and at
the very moment that the vessel is totally lost to g
view the waves mount over the heed of the solitary Ll
suicide. Snob is the simple thread of the sto.y.
Thou who ',mid know with what charm, megaifiessoe, and
terror the genius of the poet hoe invested his Geese pictures
must Consult the volumes themeless. The rememosconteins
minute descriptions of local =immerse:ad superstitions which
give an additional gnu to the grand scenes which are on- I
folded in the work."

" Why," says La Liberte, "should a double sentiment
of sorrow be mingled with the admiration which 11
inch works lumpiest? Why should this book be
dated from • foreign land ; why should it
derive its inspiration from the meditations of an exile—
now a voluntary one, no doubt—but the respoasibility of
which will not press with a lees heavy weight on the his-
tory of our palmation?"
N. Jules Jaain thus speaks of the nsw work in the
Ditats :—" Travailleurs de la Mer," a poem, history, and
legend, an elegy, an 'pops., • war song, a great cry tra-
versing the ocean, and which will traverse ages—such is M.
V. lingo's new work. You can no more detach a frag-
ment from it than you can a fragment from a block of
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