New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-01
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eslhntry quite agrees with this msAim- -
French men OI letters owe, s.DCe more nan ~
wears a debt of honor 10 tho classical 'i;i' ~
Snaip. who were a. once the models which they ici-
tsted ard the source from which they drew. Al 'st
this debt has been paid by ". Ernest Lliond, 10 On
Ftude sur la lie II les Ourr0ges he Lope Or vega
Poets are often ungraeful: Virgil spoke oithe pearls
which be picked up in the dung of Ennn', ADD
Moliere asserted That he simply took bis property
where be found it. In the same MANNER LahaFpe
and Notaire speak of the Spanish Wriers Lope
de Vega and Calderon as 50 many slYageS, ana
CorDeIle scarcely mentions them. Montes'uieu
wrote in bis Leitres PerSaRrs: 1.-The only one OF
"their books which is good il the one when
shows that all the others are RIDICULOUS.
Ceryantes being the only author who found grace IN
the eyes of the French of the last century. IL was
the same thing with Shakespeare, who, alter TWO
centuries of criticism, il now more popular on tue
Continent than in England Lope de vega whoin
Ceryantes called "the prodigy of nature, the phenlA
of geniuses" the immortal author OF the Seren Cha'
drtn Of Lira, BERNARDO del Corpia, The florers .?
Don Juan, etc, is now raised on pedesth; a. VI
Lafond says: 1--WE see him studied, analyzed, adj
"mred, with fervOr which seems TO reproarn Dis
country itself with coldness and Indifference
There was curious passc darmeS gong on De-
,veen the Ed;uLuyoh Beri,n and Mr. Charles Dick
ems A critic maintained IN the great periodlca
that the episode of Rgauds death in Little DOrrit
has been suggested by the AL Of the houses III OF
tenbam Court Road The novelist asserts that his
chapter was written before the catastrophe Is not
the whole discussion what the Germans can a dts
quite about the beard of the Emperor BaroaroSsa
Are writer's now-a-days, obliged to take patent
e r their IDEAS Did houses never tumble down be-
fore those in Tottebham Court Road! Is the nov
elst who magies an original fall greater than he
who takes advantage of real fall What ls the true
picture which the EdiHburgt Ree"1 draw, OF u
You think 10 doubt, he sit. aud muses.
On broken bones end bTuscs"
-Four celebrated literary characters have lately
departed this world Oh. T. Bloomfield. late Bishop
Of London the learned editor of -Eschyus, whose
ecclesiastical assumption sydney Smith rdlcued by
asserting that his cards Of invitation ran thus: The
Church of England and Mrs. Blomhcld request
the pleasure" &c; Lieut.. James Holman known
as the Blind Traveller, whose Voyage round the
World" 90 much resembles that of the equally blind
jacques Arago; the French novelist Eugene Sue
and Mr.. Croker of Tie Quarterly Rerie'c, Benjamin
Disraeli's adversary, whom the latter ridlcned as
Rigby in 'Coningsby."
1.-The Kings 90 away" exclaimed Chateaubrand,
dOlefullv, in J-3O. There is now wOrse Calamity
over France, for her great men Ego away" She
has lost her greatest sculptor, David dangers; her
greatest philosopher, Lamennais her greatest
painter, Delsroche: her greatest poets Alfred de
Nussct and Beranger; and now she loses one OF her
greatest nCyclists, Eugene Sue. The valiant gene
ration which shed such a brilliant literary luster
under Charles y. and Louis Philippe will soon
have died cut, and one star after another vanshes
from that once radiant sky Sue had political as
well as a literary significance; he was, i'll lrJO,
chosen representative OF the people by the electors
Of Paris, and his election became even the preteXt
for that famous law restricting universal suffrage
by which the majority Of the Legislative Assembly
dishOnoTcd itselfand furnished to Louis Napoleon his
strongest engine Of war for bis future coup dftdt
Eugene Sue was exiled in 1-jr like every great and
honest Frenchman, and died in Savoy. His politi-
cal feelings remained democratic to his last breath
and only few months ago he wrote revolutionary
song, The Marseilaise of the Marianne which
has become the war-ciy OF that secret society.
Sue belonged to family of physicians his
father had become conspicuous by work against
capital punishment, in which he tried to prove that
beheaded cOnyicts lived and suffered for some time
after the execution In order to make his thesis
more evident, the philanthrOpic Doctor galvanized
the body of wretched culprt under the guilotine
itself as the head had fallen, and the result
was drea dful IN the extreme. Eugene, or rather
Marie .JOseph-ior such really were his Christian
names-at first followed his fathers career, and
served as surgeon in the French army aud navy.
He tried afterward to be appointed Professor Of
Ply siolcgy, but failed in the attempt. He en-
deavored. also TO become II painter, and was for
some time pupil OF Gudin, but without great sue
cess. At last Lis father having left lin handsome
fortune he took the pen and wrote, successfully
"Flckct Flock" "Atar Gull, > La Salamandre"
LA Nigie dc Roat-N en-" ole COmmandeur de
Nalte," "Coonel Suryile," "Achile Hard, y
",Iean Cavalier" "LatrGaumont" "Lftoreres I"
beside history of the French navy. He achieved
soon great rcnoUn, and became noted among the
celebrities Of the day. The Prose- published as
ieuilleton bis "Mathide, Memoirs Of Young
Woman" and the Journal deS DtJats his "Mys-
tcres de Paris" While studyisg popular protO-
types for his great romance Sue became republ-
can and q socialist, and retained an unshakable
sympathy for the suiierings of the working classes
The Constitutional paid him 800. 600 francs (SlOO,-
UuO) for the Wandering jew" and, though the
romance was in some degree failure, the news
paper of NJ. yeron made fortune by 1t. In fact,
this novel did the Jesuts more harm than the most
eloquent destinations of Michelet AID Edgar Quiz
nett, for il was read by everybody. We mention
only Martin" LA Famille JOulroy' and Les
Mystcres du Peupe," written since that period,
like LES Sept Ptches Capitaux," and contro
yersy against Catholic Uhranonstanes in Belgium.
His last works were composed on too large a cam
vas aid besides, the author wrote his fcuisctOn day
BY day, a manner which proved certainly injurious
to his stye. But he was thoroughly honest Inan,
bitter enemy Of every oppression and superstition,
conscientious republican: hail, then, to his memory,
and peace 10 his ashes 1t has been maintained
that he Was only pleased IN Inc midst OF horrors,
and his ccuntrymen said Of his novels: Eagene she
SUE sang Fl carnage In order, not TO cxcu.e, but
to account for that tendency, have only to quote
what the late Madame Emile de Glrardln wrote Of
him, in January, l-f1:
"Oh YOU have the right strict morast. to ctcise these
hobe stories odous descriptions winch the fashion
nov but you have malt TO charge with these urp
udes tie suthos who forced 20 imagine them nor the
ncu.papcrs which forced 70 publish them Accuse the
voln the petty little Of the crime they give the
tone and that how they understand the feet IN erat3
agreeable influence. At the 3el Raubouet they
rcaut deelcy aud feeling they have brought forth eeoey
osipdV Days they dream 81 eneIey and nature
suG--ou see what they inspire
W. shf MD not have yentuTed 10 quote these lines