New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-16

hut o,e are DEGRADED .nd d.f'ed, 20 highteu and
nnrifv ,hi. ONE by contrast. ! .at IL II. Hugos
manner a. srtst. The one virtue, being grealy
ebh,rcsd By the th0ussod crimes reh.ointates
TIE subject Thst is n. Hueo's theory as NOR
nli,t He belongs TO the rehsbitstiug school where
. sinner with one glaring virtue Is put at the head
Of the class AID carries of al The premiums iof-
m.rlv reserved for Well. behaved salnis
The book is rot al bad. Not Sttstsndos the
character of the heroine, there is 10 undressing
vice rag BY rag The plot Of the story IL ingenious
exe.pt At the cor clusioD, where suicides and muir
ders are rather too much hudded. without reference
T. poe,ica or criuin, justice
10 the romsLce tie author snre1es al eIplana-
tory. d.dicsiory and snecdotical article or essay,
sde ressed 10 his mother. which is chiefly interest
il 2 for the empses it gives OF The way OF life 10
tie exilsd Hugo family. - Ia spite OF Enslanc,
he says, they all more or less remain the
'incorrisibe Parisans they were when they m
"hsbted The bou.e in the Rue de Ia Tour d Al.
"yerppe. and looked down upon the houses AID
monuments Of the great, fascinating city, prosil.
"tuted like Babylon, holy as Jerusalem, eternal
as Rome-the cradle Of the Convention aud Ihe
"Bal de rOpera, Of revolutions and vaudevillss.
Til, was written before the amnesty. The fre
ouent onestion for the past week IS vii Victor
Hugo take advantage of II His new poem, La
Leg, nde DIS Soies announced for publication early
next month would give TO his return sort Of TIL
umphal grace.
should not quit the Hugo family without men.
ton Of Aueuste NacqueIic, so closely connected
with il by various ties. His brother Charles mar
RED Hugo's only daughter, Leopoldini. The tragic
death of the young couple in lc43 is frequent
theme in Les Cont,mpiaiOns of the bereaved father
Auguste Vacquere has published lately number
Of half legendary, half historical articles on the
Isle vf Jersey-in which fact and fancy and reilec-
ton are most aereea5ly mingled. 1t is TO be hoped
that they are WHIST they have the air Of being parts
Of larger work in preparation. His last dr. .matlc
production, SOHrent honr1e rarie, has ootal1ed
great success at the Theater Francois. IL Is a
light airy little comedy 10 verse, not overburdened
with sentiments nor oyerstarched with morality
The euthor has no higher aim than the innocent
intellectual amusement of his audience-the proper
purpose Of acted comedy-aGd reaches it.
In The department Of historical literature, there
has appeared ,hs month book Of solid worth, en-
titled, Les Jp,fs en- France, en- hati. At an Espagna
TIE author, NJ. BedaIrite is an Israete lawyer.
The best qualities of his nationality and profession
appear in ibis result Of bis Jealous perseverlng and
discriminating researches into the condition OF his
people from their dispersion up to the present tme
lie has been more intent on preparing tns1 on
pleading the case He began the serious study OF
bis subject more than thirty years ago, and now
presents the chronicle OF facts thus collected.
Their arrangement is so beautifully clear and logic
Ay prOpOItloDeu %, apart Hou Tue Husi"si III
terest Of many Of them, to relieve the ordinary
dryness of chronicle and to naturally sui gest to the
readers mind the arguments ard reflections with
which the author might have swelled the volume.
long appendix AT its clo,e is filed with ilustra-
tive aud justfcatiye notes sud references that as
sure the respect for the eruditi0n and the c1nh-
dence in the msgisral impartiality of the auth5r,
which peruial Of the body Of the work has IN
spired.
II. Bedarrde's investie ations into the state OF
the French, Italian ard Spanish Jews have been
chiefly directed 10 their relations with legislation,
literature and commerce. With their domestic
mabrers, and the picturesque side generally OF
their sad history during the dark and middle ages,
which enlightened Christian nations prolonged for
them down to tie nineteenth century, he has little
to do.
Cubicslly and numerically considered, as Dids-
bury would ssy, Nj. Capefeue's works are among
the gre atest of modern literature. As long ago
1c5l he had are sdy written e volumes, mostly on
serious historical themes The delivery OF that year
was four volumes IN Svo. on the Flint -Four Ages OF
the Christian Church. Since then he has sunk to
1SmOs. and painted women. Any time for year
past the PODpadour aud Du Barry, in meretricously
ornsmenied covers, have been displayed in Amyot's
window, in the Rue de la PAX. Having brought
the Muse of History down to such company, NJ
Capefeui sets her to whitew ASKING with very in
different success He has ust added TO the eulogstic
biographies of the sboye-named females, Mad.
enoiseue de la Iaiitre It les Farories des trois
Ares de Louis NJ. La VALERIE was never as
degraded as the other two, and after her early
repentance led most exemplary LIFE, which, con.
sequently furnishes too little material to I'LL alone
b. Capetguet volume.
LamartlDe has lately put forth Life of Alex
auder the Great. 1t is not talked about. am
afraid il is not read. People are tired of hearing
of Lamartine, IS though it we're his fault and not
THERE that they once talked over much about him.
Tie city gave him the other day life-estate in
cottsee by the Bots de Bouloene but some men,
bers of the municipality opposed the gift. 1t was
little before their unanimous vote of an unlimited
appropriation for The August fetes, which cost the
city, so far as is yet known, 100000 francs.
A rev volume by Guizot, ITOis ROis, Irois Pen
Piles, Trois SieeleS, is reannounced in press The
hrst volume of the Campagne dkaGe, by the
official military historicgrapher, de B,zancourt is
nearly ready. Perrotin has published q selection
Of Berapger's songs that can be read in families;
Mey's Monsieur august cannot.
DI'EIS AT HElDEI BERG