New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-22

| Is called to by the "Blnes" to retreat rapidly be
I 1 psrt OF the burning tower is about 10 fan
| ateJIo tne children espy her from a window
anu stretch ont their hands TO her They
| stahd out IN bold relief against the fam.
| ing background. All is so fearfulIy
real SO natural 30 pathetic that spectators look on
! WIN oated breath. IA man appears In the fiery
! furnace ana pushes ladder out OF the windov
| lie Is the Marquis de LdBteHae Our old trend.
fnergeGat KdToub' halls him with Yiye la Repub'
! Hlue we lie RO," replies the Marquis De
Ld"ienGc The noble yendeau, who might have GOT
| away by srbterranean passage. is conquered by
| the distress and beauty Of the children and de.
termnes 10 save their lives at the cost of his own
capture. lie succeeds.
d ngroism calls forth heroism, as deep answers to
enables the Marquis 10 escape, and axes
| ms place at the drrmhead court-martiaL which IL
! presided over by ms friend and former guardian,
! 1O'OAe' tm0nrddin, who, being a French Junius
| Brutus votes for his death Sentence is execufed
The solcal colonel blows his own brains ont not 20
witness the consequences % his vote. It's fright.
.but rs grand" Victor Hugo often solves knOtty
situations by suicide His mind often runs on sui
cldal ideas. tiad II not been for his grandchildren
ne would nave swallowed a poison that was sure
dltu rdph IN Its mode Ot operation
when his ,on Charles died. That death left hI9
chlldles', Tor his daughter Adele. the only one Of
the quatrlle OF the Place Royalc,' l. in q mad
mouse mouse LeopQIdine Hugo was drowned boating
mouth OF the seine. Francis Victor died Il apo
plrXy IN tine Bordeaux Assembly m 1S7l and
Charles OF painful maj idy in 1873.
piece he Marquis fe LGHtesa a. Is every inch noble
man Of the GBreH reJime RE l. capable Of throwing
his sword INTO he ditch of a hOtly defended ram
part anu charging after n 10 lead his soldiers on.
'toi0arddiH Is Roman statue done m Brittany
granite ImdRBs l. f9natl whom serfdOm has
brulallzcd. taUrdR Is an unconscious ingenious
hero Inere j. tie tr;g grdn4eur OF Is hylus in
Micheie Fe"hdTde. There are scenes feplete with
ldYlc grace, but they the m IT, desert.
Tempest follows up0n tempest. A terrible storm
Is the taking I he antique town OF Dol IN BRITTANY
history l. revived ia the persons II DantOn,
MIrat and Robespltrre. Victor Hugo has much
sympathy for DautOn He admires ia, pruAitY ~
RObesplerre, 20 whom lac gives the qualities Of
higAi{ tempered Steel lie Is cold, hard trenchant,
and liable 70 rust. Msrat Is enignatIcal Tho
ait Of the political chiefs of Ninets three was
that, when the head said one thing aud tie heart
another, they let the former override the latter
Nlleray, Iacr * and Mailer peIsonafs
DdHton, Edrat and Roiepicrre chilli named
Lamar Is Georgefte. she Is dear lit
tie thing ana plays part cbarmugly. Padin
Mile. Gabrielle GlUtler 1, the Itrdadtre. Marie
Laurent i duped IN RAYS from end nf the pires
To- the other. she proves that great actress does
not stand ID need ot elegant rpper. ! believe
THAI Ninety Three WOuld he the rage all over
the United STATES were n adapted for tho
American stage. Heln- used say there
was no 5u,n NbIettlst Ia tie world AZ
Victor Hugo, and that no CramIfIH since tho
time Of Shakespeare So th0ruu yhy understood
dramatic effects. But HeInr drLi-a hat he was a
poet. lie Thought him bOmOaStIc and inflated and
affected, am lost all patience whenever critics
b. lcrd his poetic tlcuI les. IAAt gifted Jew must
have been blinded by envy. Victor Hugo does, I
admit, and that MOI lnirriuently slip trom the sub
lime To the ridiculous, ana particularly when no
goes far North. Hut In Ninety hr.r " aud IN IA
giants in the Reign OF Terror. and hs pencil draws
them well.