New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-09
LIFE IN PARIS.
,ETTER FROM ARSENE HOrSSAYE.

TRIBUNE IN PARIs-N. THERE'S HOUsE-wABMING
VICTOR HUGO AND HIS PRoMENApEs.
IrRou A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRInUNE.l
PARIS July l2.-There are many spirits, always
alien to thcir places who iud it impossible to
breathe in the orderly, methodcal life of every
day. Such spirits delight in the perlcus edge OF
rrecip;ces The risk is preferable to the certainty
of sufiocation in the kitchen-like atmosphere of
every dav Prince Galitzin once said to me, We
are very much alike. We ny from branch to branch
like bird on the hunt. If we stop on branch 1t
breaks If not break il ourselves, being born to
run asor adventures.' The Arabs say. There is
road to happiness bnt travellers never come To the
end of It," All Paris is on that road; IN the
provinces people resign themselves to Their lot
whatever IL may be. They accept their humhie
destin;es without stretching ont their hands toward
the impossible. The seekers after the unknown
who are regarded out of Paris as madmen, come 10
wreck themselves in the capital OF capitals But the
worthy pe0ge who think they have no sar are con-
tented to Ii We "a il pleases Heaven They are wise
perhaps they happier than othcTs, bot as they
never scale the SUBMITS they never in danger OF
falling from them.
Ali Paris.ans have tho ambition 20 play Great
role: to sound all the dapaeors of pride. Whatever
nights Of fortune or renown they may scale, they
find tsey are never h.gh enoagh That explains
this perpetual steeple-chase; men meet, saiat"
hastily raj onward and como at last 10 ihcH
graves TO recognize after all that it would have been
wiser to pause and pluck flowers beside the way
However 81 .uated whatever the ky or the horizon,
one is never satisfied. Neither those who have
hotels on the Champs Elysecs nor Those who dwell
IN TIE garrets Of MeuilmontaAt, feel at home re
who 5 loved and he who is not he who is thriving
AID h. who is rained lie who dcoeiyes lis wife and
he who is tocsyed by lis sweetheart, he who is
L.. -.,,,.. hax no
he who sits with folded arms all hope for the NOR
row. because it is full OF promises. But che morrow
IL like Fonteree who had his hands full OF tru'h,
and never opened them. This faith in the morrow,
this perpetual aspiration this search for the W.
known. is the explanation Of the night walkers; ;
they have so long il vain expected Happiness by day
thai they tun TO the night fort.
The n yi has also lis suD, lat ii is seen only -
the initial a. the drinkers 81 absinthe, beer, and
brandy. IntoxicatiOn transports them Into n
diaEt world which causes thIn to pity the world OF
water-Grirkcrs. In fact the intoxication Oh pride
and Of love eivcs no such lefty disdain ofthngs Of
earth - cors with the dazzling vsiOnsof tie PERT
we're. Fd.a- Poe, Alfred De Alussot and Charles
CoNsny have proved and established this. Il has
been "a q that the last DohcIaialS dead bat
proireual. q. night, from midnight to siX IN the
morning. will slow you bJhen&ns OF eVor' sIa..c at
the mar a. tho Douley ards in MontmaTire, AMI the
Latin country. The gallant bohemia OF Ger id &c
Nerval Vie s.nole-dTiel Bohemia OF Henry Murger
the singing Bohemia OF Gustave Mathieu. all he
nntio,e Docinans in short have given birth - Il
hor lie of ln.e Bohenlias scattered through Paris;
Bohemas II men, and of women wnere they PISS
their tin in making the world over as if ought 70
be. H. sealing heaven, III dctlroling inbeoiiiy' end
i'll Thousand innocent cnteIpiiSS Which NAls! al
the sIno.;e Il ,he last morning cigar
Tho p.irf.r Nonef fitorsI cnV a:QJ-ail4Cd with
this Hohcna; you have doubtless seen his engray-
ino OF q drnnhard absOTbing bis book. IL is tIuc
Bohesrian studo-rat who thinks that tho fumes Oi
beer viii clear and illuminate his wit. Naturally
Edward Narct, creating 4 ncw school in painting
which IL, school OF inspiration ard of fur ricnic
does nc. suspect that Lc is creating, after so many
others q school Of absinthc e possesses an artistic
Temperament ~ the manner oil Dciscfoix, wno also
secured the academies and died an Acadcmician. il
hi llraas tru,hfulncss MGlet Lreaas al tie 1ilcs
hut as ne IS highly gifted he arrives frequently al
an approximation Of Nature which is startling. Al!
I'LL. had only been willing TO submit 20 the laws Of
dcsra. r. lngres Of the cr. osite school, used to
say "nra, ing is the profi,y of att We slr'uld
moi take dis thought too III rally because if wouH
alLo.s ,qale tlat all cel1Tiets committed nothing
but n.ye-.os when they freed themselves FROM Tho
laws q de> IA. Bus the maXIr Is good one. d."
not lacan 70 say by that ttat Mant cannot draw
He think tla5 nature Is tJJ vaI1 III her laanIlol
fora, - make 1t TO >sible TO lain heI through thu
false app,r rus of schools II ia certain that bis
men lis wo Gen his trees his rocks, MS SKIES would
not be received at the Seaoo of Fine Are, but obey
have nevertheless a sturdy accent Of realism
However lha. may DE, he is tue aIty5. With a
high literary sense. For instance, he has just Illus
trated "1he Raven" that fine poem OF Edgar Poe
already ira slated 90 times into French, aud which
Nallar bass ju-. translated sin. Ii isa beautiful
folJ Oily 20 copies pTiat,d, Oh the fpes, paper il
the No.ll Ga tAe pa ui.laclt coycI The raven out
lines his great beak ANA mtcTogates the evil tates
He is terrible and alive; more hightful shH when
lac syr. sls Is wings ana displays lis claws. The
tbld eto Ainy represents Edgar Poe at work In the
bleak Dceaber trying 10 borrow from his books sur
cease of soIruw fer the lest Lerore. The fourth is
picture Il The poet and tie when tie shutter
is opened and the bird without the least Cbci-
sance enters the Gfth j. tic raven perched on the
bust Of TAllas, and saying, "Aeyeuncie'
NJ. Mauet has endeayored TO reproduce the
vague the profound, the nocturnal, and the
luminous to be found in that admirable poetry, which
embraces 80 much of the ideal and suggestive Those
will be disappointed who shall look in these ecngs
for the incsl details of tLe ancient ensraver 1t
a rapid sprituel running pencilng. He asked me
TO say a word about it III lHE TRIBUNE, and have
said my word
JHE INlBt NJ ~ not OILY nuCh fe'd III ans J. ~
well read Scarcely had the COmte de Pans received
his COPY when he wrote me a charming letter being
much more touched at the appreciation of a New
York paper than by that of Paris Journal. i may
say the same of the thanks Of ". Theirs and of Viz
tor Hugo. | send their compliments on to you, as il
is the journal to which they due more than the
critic.
This week ". Theirs has hung the crane in the
famous house built with the million voted him by
the National Assembly. This is good joke the