New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-07

walked up and down his garden declaimng bis
sentences in search of harmonious sounds or as he
himself expressed IT. "Je hurle.' When thus seen
and heard by peaceable bourgeois in front Of the
railing, the effect may be imagined
Silence and solitude were necessary conditions. If
his servant, unbidden, entered his room, he inn
patiently broke out with his favorte oath: " Ton
nerre ct Macadamp and ordered her to retire.
This comical fury was atoned for by
kindly speech at the following repast.
THIS literary recluse often worked eighteen hours
day, and has been known to spend hours on sim
gle sentence. Indeed. time did not enter into his
calculation he worked as if he were to live q
thousand years.
He had o literary conscience that was inflexible
Some time ago. one of the Paris managers, in view
of the of tho novel of Madame Bovary." re-
Quested him to write play, which he did, spending
on it one or two years, for it was impossible to
hurry him, When the play-Le Candidat-wa
brought to the manager he saw,in order to render 1t
PLAYABLE, certain changes would have to be made,
and suggestion to this effect was made to Flau-
bert who answered that the play should be given
exactly as he had wrttcnit or not all. The manager
endeayOTed in VAIN to persuade him, the play was
represented as came from the hands OF its author
and met with signal failure. FlaubeTt here made
the mistake not uncommon in stysts, IN surprising
literary excellence to be essential 10 theatrical sue
cess ltisnatural to suppose that this unfortunate
experience would have changed the opinion OF
Flaubrrt in this respect 1t did not He held TO his
original idea and believed that he was right, III the
interest of arr IN refusing to accept any modiiica-
ton. ll0 said in my presence: Every man must
do his best, and then stick to it," In other words,
literary art, to him. was religion.
One of hls INF innate friends was Th6ophilc Gau-
tier, of whom he spoke as Panyro Th6o." They
were united in friendship, but diSnnitcd as to
method of working Gan Ter wrote with an ease
that excited the wonder of BllZaC furnishing good
copy that was far removed from the fatal facility
school Flaubrrt reached his results through intel
lcctual sweat and hating; GantIor put ms ideas
on paper, scrcncly and regularly. The effect OF
FIaubrrt's prose on the reader is like that on the
spectator IN seeing weacted play from the front;
the pocrSs OF producing his effect as unslgDtly
as that winch goes on behind the scenes among the
scrnc-shliters and stage carpenters
During my VISIT there was some discussion of a
political question of the day. in its moral aspects III
wlrh the host took large part warming he
talked. lie became indignant, his voice grew
lOudCr and, unable to contain himself IN sitting
posture, he strobe mp and down the room, Shaping
ms great thighs with emphasis. Ills furious denun-
cation, considered IN connection with his pacific
disposition. furnished a comic side To the picture.
Here was "A giant with the mruacng air OF Irudal
cneitaln, VINO, ~ point Of TACT would not hurt n
tly. Hence, when he uttered his terrible oath,
"IUnnrrIc ct Macadalnw his listeners remained
unlcrriicd
saw the album in which was accumulated the
conversation of two Of the characters in the story
ne was writing. These two types were of tho
Jo>cph lruhumuc kind. and the album was the re-
rruf;cc of the commonplace and naiSrly stupid
talk winch they might uttcr, the author using the
phrases thcrcirom ~ required. The last PrIdhum-
man remark inscribed N it WAS: Monsieur, II ny
aura pas d'abrlcois Cctto aimee" The light of tins
provrIbla wisdom WAS turned especially on politics
and the weather.
The political opinions of Flaubcrt whatever they
wcrr did not affect bin in hrs friendships, Tor he
was alike tie friend Of P1nco jerome Napoleon and
of Victor Hugo. When FlaubrIt was stuck down,
b. died ~ twenty minutes, and II was my nrlal-
cholv privilege to hr of the pallbrarcrs that
cOmpluIcd his remains to II graveyard III the vIcin-
Ity of kuucu ALBaRT RHODES.