New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-27
VOTING FOR AN ACADEMICIAN.

I'D. in The Century.
When Theirs the Warwick of the bourgeois mon
ornhw maid the customary round of visits IN 1883,
he wore a camlet mantle, fastened az the neck Mioa
n large buckle. In every house at when ne ca.Gu
ba left tbe cloak in the ante-room, ana IN again
donninp il slipped golden coin INTO the m'inu Vi
fbe servant who helped him to put IT on inns pro
fusion arose from his native shIeW0ness i id,,,v
servants talk freely to their employers Inc WIDOW
of am Academician whom NJ. Theirs visited TO OBTAIN
his support has related to me her hrst impressions
of him NJ. Laya was the author oil Al W1 NC "a
10; y drama written to defend LOuis WI. ana
played in the Reign of Terror lie was on ny, Tnen
the candidate for immortality CARER. Puu Id %
ava asked the visitor to stay until her husband re-
tnrned. She thought him odd. They fell INTO con-
yersaton He had something original 10 say IN "a
falsetto voice OH every topic that she proached ~
did not occur to her that he was the klng-aker Ol
the DAYS of July until Nj. Laya came III anu IeTug
nized in him the statesman ana histoiah' wien
the visitor had gone Madame Laya Siio u i'i mug
'' aof course you will vote for himT
al don't know"
ale Is not man of the world; he is petulant and
i'll brooks contradiction"
aWbv because at the Academy he would be CONNIE
un diable dans uR bentier like Satan IN the hoiy-
water fontl.' .,ou,,,i,os In voting
for him YOU will do me pleasure"
II monsieur will allow me to risk an obSerya-
tlon" broke in the maid, VINO was sewing u, ine
drawing-roOm Il shall take the liberty OF saying
that generous men, like good wlne soften down
with age .,,ouo,,oyn
aWhv. he handed me a twenty-frane piece when
7 bnekied his cloak. Monsieur has two sons. lie
frendshm of a man in NJ. Thierss position is NOT 10
be thrown away" Ihis argument was cOmGluoa'o w. &c,
M Lava voted for the little great man, VINO was
ever ready afterwald TO obhge any member oi his
family. .,1,s M. o+,o,d
private meetings unless to vote only receives canu
dates at dinner at his table In the society oi
three rival competitors They were NM. Paul ~.
Victor Keenan, and Eugene Manuel the poet. 81.
Victor and Manuel talked, as well as listened 70
their illustrous host. Paul st. Victor was an oid
and much cherished friend OF the poet, put anguai
and held to his own opinions on socialism, religion
and philosophy. He was Cath9ilc ana Dona.
nartist Renan for three hours only nsteheu except
10 eiaculate every two three minutes, when VIC
tor Hugo was speaking. Mdttre' toaS aeet .a,oy y
He kent his head hung one side, and continued TO
smile rs If i'm a state of beatitude. Need say that
on the day of the election " the Master voted for
6im3 lingo excused himself TO the older friend, ST.
Victor. the ground that he was DoIG 70 pio'os'
The Academy is place where Literary men rup
shoulders with polished men of the world and
forensic and parliamentary orators OF the highest
nnblc of letters is good for all the Forty. Owing TO
r. controversy among them loses It's sting
Geniuses who are unable to master their irritable
nerves are not held desirable associates. 10 mental
power combined with social amenlty, the ACADEMY
Is of easy access Chateaubrand, whose vanity
took r1dely self-asscrtiye form, would not prob
aby have been elected if the mmortals had not felt
Obliged to him for standing out against Napoleon
tyranny Victor Hugo, who won an Armenian III
his fortieth year. then lady killer as well as
great poet The yirile strength of his body soul and
mind were toned down by chiy alrOus respect for
women and an almost feminine tenderness Tor little
children. He was lion in whose presence a lalnD
might play fearlessy Lamartne got into the
Palpably, he had blood, and he had acquired the
shibbolcth of fashionable society IN diplomacy.