Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-10-17


THE SLAVE POWER; Its Character, Career
and Probable Designs: being an attempt 20 eI-
| plain the real issues involved in the American
Contest. By ]. E. Caines, N. A, Professor
| Of jurisprudence and Political Economy IN
Queens College, Galway, and late Whately
Professor Of Political Economy in the Univer-
sty Of Dublin.
! Professor Cairnes is a man Of independent
thought. He decides our cause in that spec
ulative style for which er oathedra opinions
are remarkable. A collegiate son, with no
cotton mandatory TO bias his opinions, and
no political wire working to prejudice his
course, be talks in dispassionate way about
tariffs and slavery, which certainly cannot
but crafty the Northern public. The book
is, with the exceptions of here and there
some slight statistical erroneous inferences,
as fair q statement of the Northern Anti
Southern opinion as can be produced. 1t is,
in substance, the lectures delivered by the
author before the students Of Dublin Univer-
sity. We Americans may be proud to find in
that old scholastic eloister so stauneh
friend as Mr.. Cairnes, and We hope that our
readers will pay the gentleman the eompli-
ment of a careful reading. The book is for
sale by J. B. Cobb & Co.
LES MIsERABLEs. PART V. JEAN vALJEAN.
A Novel by Victor Hugo. Translated from the
French by Charles E. Wilbur.
Victor Hugo is decidedly bold writer
He belongs to a daring school. That school
repudiates all the usual decorous ideas which
French Eteroti have, until lately, been wont
to hold, and looks for success in the very
surprise which a dashing originality pro-
duoes. Who but Victor Hugo could have
modelled and moulded galley slave, the con-
crete personation of all that is disgusting,
and frightful to the sense of the French peo-
pie, into hero for that same French people
to worship? And yet he has done it, and
made his work at the same time searching
test of free speech in France, as he trod on
the dangerous ground of political novel writ
ing. He has discussed the Monarchy, the
Empire, and the Republic with the careless
freedom of an American journalist, and then
demanded and obtained hearing of the En-
peror. Through four volumes he has led his
character by weird paths, and among strange
people, through political revolutions, weary
and tempestuous journey of life, and now in
the fifth he takes the despised, prosecuted,
SCARED and wounded galley slave, and places
him upon a death-bed glorifed by the en-
blems of perfect peace. The style of Vic
tor Hugo is wonder. Translation, however
well performed, and we think Mr.. Wilbur
may congratulate himself upon the fidelity
with which his author is interpreted, cannot
but detract from the polish of the original.
Yet the brilliancy of expression still re-
mains; the creation Of new idioms is almost
Homeric. Speaking of the death of one
character he says, " His face became au-
gust" We can hardly imagine a more epic
idea. The book is full Of such expressions.
We deem that next to a Frenchman, an
American will appreciate the novel, and to
every one who desires anexciting weeks read
ing we recommend this last of Les Miserables.
This work is for sale at J. B. Cobb & Cos.
DR.. Griswold's Office, No. 104, Public
Square, East Side, between Superior and
Euclid streets. oct.I4:4I0.