New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-19
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an ,Ao Sra dcCsncd 10 prcsumP'uons However, two
,,,.,s IsSpsNt tAs age OF seventeen, he cared two
r,;xes stIc Aetacny Of Floral games, and ia 1922
h. Cot NoluuNof lyrical poems apiearod which not
e,iy confirmed o. high regard in which many OF the
u,.s ciucut rccn in France held his genius but also
eltsinCi fol him pension Of three hundred francs
s4sm Louis NVlII, which enabled him TO marry
Ire Young giTi for whom he had conceived TO-
mantle affection az the tender age oil hVe, ana
who at time when poverty ana al man
net Of cifculdoe stood i'll Tie way OF marriage
with vamsps fidelity in the hour OF darkness, never
fSI,cicd in affection bct encouraged him aud inspired
him 70 srite a romance Han dtslind,' the ogre
Han rSpr~eDting their GiiicGu's, the hero Ordeues
Victor himself and the heone Eihe his true little
indeed noG difficult to most OF his inspirations to
tbc influence of woman and Of home, aud it is well
known that those beAutoouS creations, like that of
Espoerada. combining with the tenderness # Mgnon
and the cendeness Of FeDea, the grace of child OF
nature. found built under the rolf of his resi-
denoe in perhaps the most re'ired-iookiDg spot
IN Par.s but vet right on the corner OF that
Place Roy ale 20 fa of glory and heroic "reminiscences.
Here he loved to dream and write, with sumptuous
surrounding suitable to hs glowing ima5inatlon All
Aha Is oope Yet more envisbe is Victor Huge, as
,oor exile to liberty in jersey. Here too, were writ
,e, tho FEM lee Automre, in which, inspired By
all s,oprd him be tings the blessings OF home. AL
4bopcb Ina " Orenaes' created a more feveri.h flush
of e1tbusiasrn the lyric wreath which will bloom the
L., cest is woven Of autulnnal leaves. This afec
non 10, lone was planted iii her by her mother. But
she was Yendeeune ever loyal to the old Bourbons
and fiaI love may well excUe the ha'tery of H1go
70 Louis XVIII in the early pat Of his career.
But in after life he embraced the Republican senti-
ynents Of his father who of the fret vOlun-
teers Of the Republic and one OF the most loyal i'd
hereuts Of BoaHpahe; and from that hour We hnd
Victor Hugo tie rCsOiUte friend OF the people until
this ast nj htmae Of Napoleon who hates all that
Is p,ue or noble tlrus; him of Fraoce, aud left
him al exile on email island TO sigh and
sorrow over the degradation OF hlS country.
Next 70 his mother the great IT influence rcse1 on
his mind was by General La Horle, who, implicated
In Morea1s t.iG, Offered refuge Ia NJ idlme
H7go's house. ana evinced his gratitude by impartlng
70 little Victor much Of the h'gh toned spUh and
accouplpi meuls of learning which this ll-tated man,
who was after~srd dragged from the arms OF his
afecGoDate pupil, possessed TO SO eminent degree.
This youth, too. full OF inspiring romance Born
in BeeaDcOn in 1902, he went q mere chld Of five
wears old 70 Elbu Passing through Italy 70 Naples
he played around the edge OF Nesuyius al an age at
which other children play with toys, ana fed his
Imagination with all the rutiian romance which
hove red round Fra DiavolO, whom his father, as
Governor OF the district Of AveniDo, had TO chase
through the wilderness of the Calab ia Moan.
tains Then following bis father like child OF
the army through many OF Napoeons campaigns,
his imagination received another stimulus fom al he
saw in spain and Madrid whore he remained year
with bis father, who through Nap,e'n's friendship
was mace Mujor Domo of he At.curlal. Win what
romantic foeipps and giant experiences this suOHme
sIildr entered in lsl5 the Louis le Graud College,
the age Of thIteon may be better imagined than do
sc,jbec and We eed not wonder that his natural love
for poetry chastencd AID Iipened by experience ana
studv stabilized for him a fame which grew with
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reeteet OF modem romanci,s. But he is cast forth as
a Pariah--he who alone could make the stones OF the
old Cathedral sgow with light aud life bring the
traditions OF the Paris % the fJurteenth century with
FACILITATING reality before the nineteenth; draw pc
tue Of the sgoDy Of nature when tortured by tue un
earthly VOWS of nuns and monks, horrid yet so
grand that the lOwuess Of the passion f IN which they
sprapc-as in the priest of N6tre Dsme-was almost
redeemed by the grandeur Of his suferingi bring t.
gtthe eide by sce the stage OF goodpess cripple
Like Quasi.modo with a sy ph like E,meralda aud de-
yelop q glowing exubersnce of picture which has
made hs name a novelist ring from land To land.
Then again with the drama. Instead of following
the beat track Of Racine and Corne lie, who, after
The ancents would only exhibit human nature under
certain arbitrary esthetics rules, be struck out in
the confidence of genius new path, AID In his hrst
drama of Cromwell in 1897 brought, As Shakespeare
had done in E. gland, reality on the stage. The
Acadeniy and all the conservatives were OF course
against him, and called him an in1Ovaor and re-
former and it was not without much struggle that
Cromwell forced an entrance into the Theater
Frapcais But in spite of the worshipers OF the
classics. the dramas which followed omwe, Her
mani Marion do Lo1ne, Lucrece Boreia, Mara Tudor,
Appelo. Ruy Bias and some othors, were ALL
especially Hermann received with the greatest enthu'
sasm. % le to S amuse alone being reused hear
Jog on the stage, and for very good reasons.
Victor Hugo has however fallen into the opposite e1-
IRENE TO the French dramatic authors who preceded
him. Ms:cad Of confounoing propdety with P@dan-
tfy he Lss COMPOUNDED freedom with RIGHTEOUSNESS
In Angelo we find perhaps ess Of this tendency than
in bis other dramas bu It's story i. sufficiently revolt
ing Tie moral eject is far less 70 show that Outward