The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-10-19
SOME NEW hooks.
sseorre SANDS Inst Letters.

an 40 be t,ypan 1874 and 1915
the Intesi Of tho lotters now given TO the world
hovinr h,a, n,nnoJ , ,o,y due ho,ora ,ho an
tbor,s d,uib Al that timc sbo WINS un,vnrd NJ
~ vonrs Old md most Of rho fntnous mon of
iattora ,,,,,,, vbon, xva ba,r no much A., liar
earIIer correapopdonco Ind ,onu nrcc,ard mar
Her, md there I'm th,a v,lu,n, wa comc M,
letters 10 fus,nve rlanb.rt nnd pr,,,.
Fila bu, tb,y -, cnur.,, h,lnnepI 10 "A
vounper r.pern,iop Tho tonic. L,ro discuas,J
ara for th, most nart ,olilicnl rather thun
literary Yet there wns not n moment up to
,i,e some,vLnt eu,ia,, c,c.c ~ b.r M, whon IL
could be .uid Of Nine Dudc,nnt regarded IT, II
uterarv workman. Tint ''surorGuous lag. tns
yet,ron ON TN, stage" Sh. died in harness.
incssanntiy cmplo,rd in writing with hor
hnlJ,ua, rnpility. and much of her odd f,.Iclt,.
ulays novels critic;sm. rrro,lu.tious and
bearing with und,lrmrl o!serGuincs. the inaiur
mar, OF th. burden, involved ia the ,uni.rt Of
her children and rra nhch;!,,rcu She hur, -aycd
out lltt, from her .aruiut. for her rul,r was
always omen TO thur,i, - vol IA fri.ulshiu
while to hcr inmt dintc fnm.y her .rn irutu
frat 10 last had been n stan
We naturally look with p.cui,,r Lc,diulnc.s
Mt t,o In, tara r.l,tiny !, t,,, .ytnu,. iuNu.iou
tho sia,o of pori. and Tn. ,i,urr,ctin, Of III,
Commnne II,re wns IA woman who united
consum,nrt, mower. OF observation and IA mas.
,ulio. in,,lIi,..uee to the richest and most
vnrica ax,eri,nce ,vho had bch,ld the GLORY
.nd thu, wr,ct ~ tho nrsi .r,pi,. who had
,v.t,bea th, auc,n.,inv Cortunss 81 tI, rrs-
torotion md IN, abor,iy, compromises of
Louis pbi ,,,ne ,vho Ind ante red with snneuipe
fervor into IN. republican movement, Of 1913
and who had looked on its collapse with a pro-
f,,nd announcement from which she never
entirely recovered; for "a though during the
long eclipsc that followed the second
OF December she never lost faith in tho repub
lican ideal. its practical embodiment seemed
60 her less and less attannble. The principle.
she would often Gay was unim pcached and in
destructibie but the form lila for it's upplica-
tion to France WINS vet to DO discovered. There
was nothing in the dismal failure OF those Re
p,iblicans who composed the provisional Gov
srnmsnt of national defence nothing in the
sxces.es and atrocities OF the Paris Com
munists or in the almost equally savage re-
prisals vreaked by the Versailles authorities
to relieve and brace the disenchanted and
despondent mind with whose forebodings
aud misgivings these pages are per-
yaded George Sand Is strangely unjust
to Gambetta ind but, half appreciates Theirs ::
yet when wo remember thut she died at an hour
whom the prospects of Republicans were dark
est. and the DE Fourtou- Broglie reaction Wa,
gu the owe OF elimination we cannot marvel
that she failed to discern the rainbow Of q fu-
turs which to us looking backward appears to
span the sky Yet though her judgments OF
events and men are too often unreasonable
and harsb md although her provisions are
surcharGed with gloom II not despair the
LISTERS here printed. in which an observer 20
ACCOMPLISHED lays bare her opinions and ankle
ties TO intimate friends will always be re-
carded rs valuable documents by the students
OF the most rnomentous epoch in the recent
history of France.
Two Or thr,e epistl.s written mt difr.ren,
s,apes of tho calamitons wnr brought upop
Franc, bv the nsd folly of tho second e,npre
may exen,plify the shirt which dominates the
correspondcnce Here is n nots to Nine Ed
monb Adam dated Aug. IL 1870 rather more
than n fort m light before the revolutionary ont
br.als in pnris oyerthrew the immortal Govern
meut ~ cannot "writss (,oorrc sand mako
the hest Of 1, rs Won do. cannot descry liberty
in tho ,v,.,,. ~ nm, invasion shouId Wa bs con
nueroa 1, IL nnt To the King Of Prussia and the
d;n,om.cv of the o,her soycreirns TINT w., cnn
look for freeloln-und conquered W. are sure
Tn be You bnye lint TO look mt the disorder the
sheer tmuossibi,ity Of uroourlpc ornaments
betimes Tn. dny ia gone by when peopl.
fought with pruning hooks and clubs Then,
too. your Paris, which is inilnmm and
friyolous finds a contrast in the provinces
which are cold and sullsn. This war has an
unpopular side that everybody feels even when
they cannot distinguish il. Should we manage
to repel the Prussians we shall only do 1t by
dint of a military dictatorship: and how shall
We got rid of that thereafter In n word. all il
dark to my gaze and tho more aspire to lib
erty the less room sec to hope for it. Would
to God 1 might prove mistaken. Here we
arc all In utter CONSERVATION. There is not the
least ardor for enlistment. The frishtful con.
fusion that prevails Kills confidence: meI
are not afraid to fight. but they are
loath TO ioin the ranks for nothing an,
to die Of hunger and disease in tn,
awful Jam that wo see everywhere. At Bourge.
and Chatenuroux, for instance troops have
been henpcd together for "A fortnight that ar,
actually obliged to sleep out OF doors and boz
for food. Without tho frnternal sympathy o
the inhabitants who aid them they would h,
worse of than in the shock Of IL campaign
There is talk of training tho mobiles of organ
izing home guards. Whit with? There is no
q gun to give them. 1t is certainly not Ba