The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-20
The FiIth Jay Could Furnishes.

Tho young editor daily publishes nm
advertisement which declares that the cir
culation of JAY GoULD's Tribune is among
" the best people" II that is the fact, our
best people must have strange tastes III
literature; and especially they must be
different about the sort Of reading they
offer their SONS and daughters when they
Put before them the hceutious letters Of
An~i>F IIorssAYE JAY GoCLp's Paris cor
respondent.
aualv7cd a novel Of this man Ho~s-
SAVE The other day, ana so far as dcocncy
would permit, W. pointed ont the vile tone
ard vicious tastes of This Paris lilcrtiue
author. AHsiNE lloUss,yE belongs 20 Il
school ~ French writers which spwng up
during the Empire when, with trelchory
and corruption on the throne, there was
in court and society luxury and license,
sk,ptioism ana pagan uur,stiaint. Thee
writer's pooh-pooh the idea that there is
such Thing rs morals or morality.
Morals" said one Of them, 81 know not
the word. | know beauty" They have
spent their time for twenty years in cole
bratng the charms Of harlotry and making
OF prostitutes lovely creatures delightful
10 IN" eyes Of man. II was ALEXANDRA
DUMAS ms who created for the Partisan
hailots the name of dcmt monde, and
this name AHsiNE IIoUssAYE-a man
who in point Of talent is not to
Ice mentioned in the same day with
DUMAS constantly repeating. Every
one who knows anything about the true
and better French society knows lhat
fellow like this IioUssAYE could not enter
1t. He is n third or fourth rate Paris hack,
scarcely readable even with all his salac-
~. Among The others Of the immoral or
pagan school, however, were and are men
of genius, who have dehauched public
taste with their pompelian pictures of
life. Sull, it must be remembered that no
Frcnchman would suffer his unmarried
daughter to read these books. lie would
about AS soon take his innocent girl to the
Mabille ms put in her hand anything
ARsENE HoUssAYE might write.
ARsENE HoUssAYE, in his Tribune letters.
constantly shows the vileness of his aban-
doned mind. His notion of womanhood is
always that of the exhausted debauchee;
his references TO sacred things are either
patronzingly sentimental or downright
blasphemy. His highest idea of life is The
play, the dCmt monde the dinner. and the
masked ball His wit is HAT, and his
repartee lacking in true sharpness and
vivacity. His letters are chiefly celebra-
tons of himself and efforts to show in
what fine society he moves.
In his Tribune letter of Sept. 1G,.HoUs-
SAVE, writing of MERIMEE, says;
at exasperated MIN that women accepted his com
wouli ike 10 have pay the DON JUANs and the LOVE-
IACKs hut he could never get beyond The noble fat
lie was Ike an OH man even In ms youth. But he
none the less full Of pretensOns and hated all OF
fashion. In the little reunions at the Tuileries, he
would have liked 10 have none but women"
Here is another example OF the letters
of this French employee of JAY GoULD's:
snow what was the famous case OF that Court OF
Love, presided over by MERIMfK2 They started this
excessively tcksh question whether u Is permitted
10 queen TO save the dynasty by violating her coniugal
faith. The Prince Imperial then the world, so
ladies were called upon for their opinion One OF them
thought II was 4 coup ddfdt like any other. The En-
peror came In Unexpectedly. Sire said the Empress,
with her charming smile, we are playing with nre but
Mehhail not get burned for We have safe President
dhey then told him the question before the meeting.
Inc Emperor entered gayly into the proceedings aud
proposed the corresponding question whether a hus-
hahnt lIhdlity could be excused when committed to
save lhe luhc peace. After some lively discussion II
Nae decided that the proposerh Of both questions should
lhVAe we're the good umes. ~ one thought Of