New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-28
VICTOR HUGO'S. NEW WORK.
AN INTRODUCTION TO HIS POLITICAL
MEMOIRS.

Victor Hugo is about to publish his political
memoirs in three volumes entitled respectively, Be
lore Exile" "During Exile" aud after Exile"
md an introduction to the work has just appeared in
Paris in pamphlet form, with the title, SIC Drot st
"a Loi" From this pamphlet the Paris correspondent
Of The London Times gives the following extract:
1his socaety on the future win superb and tranquil
%STS Teey vii raise themselves and enlishtcn one
another People will no longer be warriors, they win be
xfsy n % @ s 4 ant N be- the re
placing of murder by creation. Civilization, which was
all action via be eoapossd Of the stsdy 81 ne me
will be incidents. People VIII ne moc moved " ~,
under the light Of mind. .rceee was very small or
peninsula oi FnJsteIIe laid over Greece would cover H.
by Esesyias by Phidiss and by Socrates. These
four wOrds Greece possessed them, hei~e ncr
saaneS' sincrs tHst giant. is dwarf COLOSSAL Africa
scarcely exists. Que town, Rome was the egaai 0, Se
srSi "a orbi This greatness fl'.nce has and VIII
have France is n tins alnir.bie-that she Is
Z, snsleuration. Certain nations fuhh by sub
hInato ike uerrnles by ascension bse jesus hrst
comes the otncr nations, stars 0f scoonu
Order group emseives around H anil thus II Is lha'
ng.red and has become tie Leathen NOildi h"ne "'k
tfansgircd and has Dceome TIM Chrstin world tran
viii Ia and become the human world ne
revolution of frtnce VIII be called TIC icNoiu-
ton OF nations. whyi Beeaas, France deserves a
cause she Is not working for hctsc!f alone,
because she Is the creator O, universal nop s,,
arr only sisters l. moner. Ihis maternity OI que
10 France out IN al tie So Al phen0nnn ~ tie
aye Other he mi, cauSc her ls she fs their dtit
II, revelation not 10, al. u IA general l. Is not ulsca
n is ma finite an mite fIan,e restores every tniis
te pimlti,e notion, tie true dvl. IN phlvsvphy s!le
ryssaDshcs lUgIc In art she rrestAOs'cs haturc' III
IN law she +, ee;a6lisl,es right.
Rirnt and law sucl are tie forces. Prom thclF
Agreement sInlnss order, frcn tncir aniagOiisin c.h
trvpLcs Right scsks and commands iEosn TIC summit
al t.lt..s LAW
Rgh, aloud lro,u the just law tOh Tue loss-ue
righl divine law j. terrestrial hence hD rty Is ret
soc,a.y ls law Tlofce two trihuncs--Onc Nhero are
DE men Of id,as, TIC ether where are the
tse other Si Ssch il relative. OF these Two
trDunss first noeessao, the second useful From
otDer Is the nGctaatiOh o. coll, renee h'i
nOny ye, made bSt these two pow erhe one
ulc the oter vaane; me oLe serehc ,iie 8teI
mpas ned. Law nows nom rlsnt pa, - I'e, nSMS
ro accek, 'ng ali Tic cohtOlol': i ti5 M
puliies OF the han"s omen r,S''sS ,, vs"t fc
principle, often TIE erect 1'0beys te cause; sncu
Is tIo fatal human condiuon: laSht ami i,M
struggle without cease, ana l'vI uer dispute Ieeu
spmetnes dsnAueSs sometimes LSht. Inc s."Aoia u'e
twyid, and lie .epte var ehe.y soiS " =,
slese tho CIiy sucl Is the law; idsh ~ come 20
hay, send, eArn"n5e Law, ,hO'.s-' or ,t
Rlsht. grataiOns AID obligatory, nis.Ss'Pa via,
out encroachnent on tGe conscience vi tie hi'.i
In embiyo IN ne eh1d' mt ls 10 SOY, 49, IN rh
ssrucii naw; the i1uoiahlns right, lrtS
state religions Universal suffrage, 1ni' eisi my ua'
h right Restrained SUFFRAGE peSed Jary' tiat 20 la
The ,iing ~ judged ~ id" S"s IS g i'S.'1 NJ asnl
the space Detw,eu Law has tio hardness, TIE inonl!
tine encrOaoAneiit, and the anarchy oi M"tsf ONO.
Troubled, but rgnt cannot DC sGp'neisn ~
everything 10 10 sayed ~ Is suiceat ior IgIt 10 Nat
ulpcsnost IN conscience ono r docs MOI s1@i ,
ohstnacy OF law, all SOCIAL agitation e~.ies eene'.
ngst political words uttered in Official way by u WAC
whites lines should have been Inst at inc Institute
for ,it next IN tie ChamiTr OF ~ rs against Vac
law on Jane IL Sill In taxing his pace III tine Fr,oh
Academy, lie go1Ded Resistance 10 tne tmpl,e GA
jane j., 1871, ho demanded III Inc Ciah'et %
peers the return OF the baniSned bonapMt~
family. Therefore, in tho frst case ne was pi@ld,
ing hDerty-that is tor right; ana III tiie sotohu
nc Ns ung up lls voice sellst prescription
Vs. Jaw. From period one Of ILe formulas VI tS pap
Ic life has kr0 jt're contra tgen. ills eolsSone.
i.p'-ed upon Linn ~ hs ditiee Ol esslator refh@'h
sud polpctul cOnirCnlus Of The la" which Lisl maze
tol nee with nina rule wDci admits GA no *
septons fGealy "a t's iule L. " az lie assras wiz DC
iound in thes tire volumes, ANdit iA-An, tnuJA'
J Exll,' Depuls PEAAL"
"yictor Hugo then cor 'lules" continues The
Gimes correspondence, with q short discourse Oh
liberty and gives the explanation Of the Republican
Legend libert6, Fgalite, Iratemite;' Liberty,
Equality Fraternity lie says there is nothing to
add nothing to retrench-they the three steps Of
the supreme ladder. Liberty is right, equality is
fact, fraternity is duty. AL the man is there"
The LOadJa St0AdIid furnishes moreover u few
specimens of the autobiography culled from the
HOPED IN advance Of the publication OF the book.
While the poets father, general uuder Fapo-
Icon, was lighting in Spain, Victor Hugo
and his two little brothers were staying Ill
Paris with their mother, and an old priest who edu-
Gated them. They lived in an old tumble-dowp
house near the Luxembourg There was a large
garden, and at the bottom of the garden there waS
a ruined chapel, and in that chapel the Hugo family
Lad concealed one Gen. Lahore, why had conspired
against Bonaparte after Brumaire, and who, once
more joining in conspiracy with Malet was sho;
in the Champs d. Mars in 1912. nj. Hugo
begins by lame ptng that he received his 6rst edu-
cation at the hands of an old able, who taught him
70 read and write and the rudiments of Latin he
and his brothers do not seem to have played like
boys generally do:
Their childhood mingled with the spring. they were
fascinated by 9o0H ~ ss ny o birds .Iss n IN
council basLng the while IN sunny sine' Sous os''e
mere!
hardly with gratitude:
To have been taught by priest IN early infancy s
fact that should only be spoken Of with canlness and
lneneyiti neither the priests fault nor your OWL
Of undevelOped and the other dwared one thau
Is expandng. the other growing old seny Is catch
ing; old man 3 errors may Wrinkle child's SOU.
At the are of SIX however, he was dJa seieatr, /"
snd in recalling the happy time, he yet " feel
0 glow of pride at the military glory which the great
est captain of modern times shed over his country:
These were the times Of Eylau. of Um, Of Auerstadt
and Friedlandthe Eibe lines forced-Slandau Errur;-
NOUS victory-Wa gram the times when the EmperOrs
met ON tue Niemen, when the Car paid homage ~ the
modern Cesar the times hen there department
of the Tioer, when PARIS the metropolis oi Rome,
when the Papscy destroyed at the Vatican aud The
s:cs tradition was destroyed In Germany. wien
eeIgeants became princes, when pcstbOys were made
kiucs when archducnesges mari adyCntugers II was
te extraordinary hour; at AusteIltz Russia suing fo
mercy at jena Prussia crunblpg 10 dust at Essiiig
Auetiia knee NJ down, the Confederation Of the Enc
snexng Germany 10 France, the decree OF Berlin al
most reducing England to bankruptcy, at Pots,ian Ma
dilAa
erisk, and saying. raj Ia B,iesss lnownOt OF these
great THINGS i was a Little Doy.
Oao day three Generals called on his mamma and
took walk in the garden. They were big men, and
little Victor was fond of big men. 81 have always
been find Of all that was qeat-Ccs. qd Plus tdrd