New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-04
NOTICES OF FANTINE.

"a hook with though, In IT, Something fearful,
even though it be gorioss Victor Hugo Is an exile
thee ten years from bis native land because he srepubh-
can and will not crnge to the desposm which through per
hay usurpaon and murder cu'ched and still grsp'
her tightly by throat An author who early won ds'nc
ton in the field Of literature he has kept silence
or broken only poetry for the last quarter OF century
length he speaks ard the intellectual world bends fowsr
and strains its ear catch his first breahings well may HI
scu, the old but quesionLegal Justice doe
right than it wrongsl Your prisons and penalties
do they induce pensnee and reformation harden
offenders into rufans! Your austere and frownpg Virtue
does the erns to frsake the Of evil and
drive them calous and iTetrievabe dopravityl Such
the problems which this poet and exile discusses with in
eIorsbe resolution His indictment OF Society is the broad
the baeke, unspsng that has yet been
drswn."-[Horace Greeley in Tie n. Y Tribune.
mo book has been devoured by the public since
sUncle Toms Cabin Edition after edition disappears like
snowske the water 1t is the creates, sensation of the
day Ia literary circles, and do wonder at IT, for Il
bines the would naturally excite enhuas
and stir the souls Of readers of all classes their very depths
-lPais Correspondent Of The n. Y. Evening Post
Les Misersble 10 an immortal work and must forever
tie its place among the manifestations Of by
I great moral alone would be sufficient to maintain it BE
true be It not true will remain to poserity decla-
ration Of what Of the most eminent among the political
and social mscontent Of this age thought Of its conditions
and long the discussions Of the questions which involve
its truth shall continue opportunities will be peFpetuaed for
admiration Of its many beauties work Of att" London
Literary Budget
Tvctor Hugo has laid live coal upon the heart Of
Kind The FIRST part Of bis work Les Miserabes,
Gently published in Paris alone work If genius. 1t IL
aspiration truly divine that Gospel which pro
claimed peace earth aud good viii to uen"N Y Sunday
Times
Zone could call gallery Of vivid photographs Of the life
oftodsy lie touches the burning questions that
derlie society and law with hand which he's few
rivsls"-lN. Y. Evening Post.
"Ths longe1peced romance resss like feverh dream
We confes to reading its hundred and fifty octave pages
Through at single sitting "-LBOstou Transcript.
"a wonderful book-cesinly work Of ancient or mod
ern times has created great sensation at the this
las, novel Of Victor Hugo In freshness in rqssncy in
tho power Of dramatic expression in dnestion OF char
scter and sna,is Of mind and motive the book has alto
rether peer among the best novels o. the dsyfA.. aud
Argus
is burning words scarcely fail excite both com.
passion sinpaby and will be the Of encouraging
the benevolent their efforts restrain the young to
prove the selfish and 10 raise Tie ialen"N Y Christian
Times
"Les Mserable has been written do good 1t ;s sub.
lime work, and thrhnsy terrible in its pa.hos"-IscOt-
tish American.
"Ths production Of unquesODed and exalted gspiu'
which destined to reyivslin the higher
social of France alone bu, Of all nations in
time has at length begun 10 appear The first part Of the
drama under the title Of Famine hss already been
distributed by myhads Of copies all Chri.tendOm"TN
y Deiy Times
"Thi. is the g1es. book of the century, Were not the
county absorbed in It would greater ur0s
has been excited this side Of the water by any pro-
duct Of the The momsntary popularity Of Uncle
Toms Cabin would 30 far ecp.ed In Europe its publication
Ia termed the remarkable event since the battle Of
%serioo Three original french editions have been pub
hshed In France Belgium and Germany and Il has already
been translated into English German, Spanish Portuguese
italian Low Dutch Polish and Hungarian. The rush for
in Pans Oh Tire publishing dny Of tho second part Cosoe
when forty-eght thousand volumes were distributed By
Psguere (the Paris pubhe alone. great that orcs
OF police was necessary to order The paid
TO the author four hundred thousand francs q for the
copyright is equally uuParsIeed"-lN Y Daily Transcript
"IB this volume lies Of the noblest monuments ever
bull; by human genius to humanity ITSELF and tn, person
who misses ignores Of the sensations Of the age-
IN Y. Atlas.
The literary sensation OF The dsyindeed Of cur tmes
che publication Of Les MiserAbes.'"lNew Leader
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