The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-03

its name indicates, of the life and career of the
great archbishop. Its fault is that OF artih-
ciality, coldness, and over supply of those
ornate figures which show great study but little
discretion. We will merely quote passage as
a fair sample of Its style. The answer of Beckett
to the king, when offered the Archbishopric
presents a fair specimen of the general execu-
ton OF the tragedy
Becket. My sovereign lord, the weary weight
would crush me.
Already do 1 grOan beneath your bounty.
Tie Offices OF chancellor were much;
Besides. am provost of Beverley,
The dean Of Hastings constable of the Tower;
The BeronIes Of Eye ana BerKham. too,
Rest IN my keeping and the Joung Prince Henry,
Prosumptive heir OF England Is my pupil,
And looks to me to mirror to hls eyes
The Rraces Of a king.
Yet more, my life hath flaws
That shrewd, inspecting men, win btn{ tongues,
Woald fail not TO make patent 70 the world.
Again i never led hermit's life,
Nor shaved my head nor sandaled yet my feet,
10 90 Hpon q sanity pilgrimage
Nor felt the damp Of cloisters, nor did penance.
Nor won the favor OF suffagan bishops,
Who, for such elevation, needs must haze me-
My culture is in letters, knightly feats
Gaming and hunting hawking, horsemanship,
/ nave fought battles, too, and saed mems ood
At Tou ouse as your Majesty doth know,
And on the borders OF far Normandy,
Where, at my cost kept twelve hundred knights.
i lack the holy unctl0n OF live
Spent in meek charities ana lowly duties,
My ear is tick lei with the applause OF scholars
And my eye bends to the noudng OF plume.
i love the war.cIy OF PiaDtagenet
Better than anthems piercing Gothic roofs,
and the long wailing OF q buge note
Touches me more than silver bells at vespers
The laugh Of peasant girls, proud ladies' smiles,
Are dea or TO me than the sighs of nuns,
Whose hearts keep time to coon To'aries.
Pardon me, sire, dare not take the see
The BRIGAND; On, THE DEMON or THE NORTH.
A Novel, by Victor Hugo. L. b. Peterson, 81
Bros.
The reputation achieved by Hugo previously
to the appearance of 'Les Miserables" was
widely extended; but the reception of that, his
great chef d@uure placed him among the fore
most of European novelists. Its Translation
into English caused desire for the procurance
of the other productions of his pen and as
usual, among the first to supply the popular
wants is the house of Peterson. 'The Brigand'
is a wild, thrilling creation of al intense imagi-
nation. 1t abounds with the most exciting epi.
sodes, evervarying incidents, ceaseless changes,
and unexpected deaOuenent. The interest is
maintained throughout the whole work, and the
readers attention never allowed for one instant
10 flag. 1t deserves and will receive an immense
sale, as the works of Hugo are ever popular,
and the style in which they are got up by
Messrs. Peterson are such as to place them
within the reach of all the people.
The Round Table, speaking OF the proprety
OF publishing Nathaniel Hawthorne's Diary, as is
at present being done by the Atlantic Monthly,
comments with force on the indelicacy of such
course, and justly says:-
''And VIC have no right thus to pry into the
journal OF the departed romanclsr. The work;
which he wished to b. given to the world he
himself gave On those he laylshe1 the wealth
of his rich genius and exquisite imaelnaton
On those lie wished his tame to rest; through
those he wished to be Judged by contemporaries
| and posterity. Is not the wish reasonable? Ha
| not the author the right TO demand that hi
| merits be judged by the works which he ha
elaborated, on which he has spent his bes
| years, and which he has chosen to offer for tht
criticism and decision OF the public? Or is i
| right to rummage the dead authors desk ant
from the scrap-books and notebooks which Ia
has left behind him?
"The reason of the publication of this Dlar
nay be found, probably, in the desire of tn
magazine publishers to keep upon their list c
contributors the name Of one so widely know
and so worthily honored. But we submit tina
il is no right of publishers thus to parade i
their issues the private notes and personal n
cords of the authors whose elaborate works hav
gained them renown. II such coarse is to
encouraged and pursued, we shall have next th
publ cation of deceased writer's expense-book
and the records of his personal. disbursement
No author who has achieved any prominence
and who wishes to preserve his fame undimmeC
will dare to leave, or even to keep, any recoT
of his stray thou9hts or unfnished efforts, wit
the fear and the prospect hanging over him th'
whatever he puts upon paper will ba rushed int
print after his DEATH"