The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-07-31
THOUGHT OF THE noUR,
Victor Hugo.

seldom more than once, to have itself
summed up in the genius of a single
man. Victor Hugo was the epitome
of the best traits in the Gallo charac-
ter. Towards the French he holds a
position similar to that held by Dante
in Italy, by Camoens in Portugal, by
Ceryantes in Spain. by Goethe in Ger
many. and by Shakespeare in the great
globe itself.-Phtladeiphia Bulletin.
He founded a school of fiction which
was his own. He created a form of
poetic expression unheard of before
his day. He was 4 fierce political
thinker and a writer of great force and
strength. 1t would be unfare to COM
pare him to any II man living or
dead. He was himself the great orig
inal.-Quebec Morning Chronicle.
Victor Hugo was q pioneer reaIist.
His men and women were of flesh and
blood. Who has not been drawn ten
derby to Cosette as a sweet young girl
from real life; who has not admired
that actual personality of Drawn aud
muscle, Jean Naliean.-ClcUsland Voice.
His like will never be seen again in
the present age. France and the
world may well mourn the loss of so
great a man.-St. Jo,eEh. NO, gazette.
His early poems and ballads. sonor-
GUS or sweet, full of color and vivacity,
and his later Songs of the Woods and
Streets, will always be read for their
grace and genuineness-they are feasts
whereat the champagne of the century
IS poured, and the honey of Hymettus
is served.-Phiiadelphia Record.
Whatever place critics may give
him all will unite in saying thai he
was q MAJ who had talents that came
livlng.-BostoU Globe.
There are no great men. Massillon,
over the body of Louis XIV, cried
out: God only is great.o A crea-
ture is only p~roNimately great, and
Hugo. who was poet. novelist, editor,
essayist, patriot in the true sense and
politician in the high sense, was as
near greatness as is possible for hui
mainly in the ordinary world-deiini.
tion.-NeW York Mercury.
The giants are departing, enc by
one, from earth, and with Victor
Hugo's death, possibly the most pic.
turesque 4gure of this century has
vanished The Jerish Messenger.
He was doubtless the foremost lit
erary mar OF his time, and the great
est Frenchman in the world of letter:
since Noltaire. -jNihrnuhce Sentinel.
In his death the world loses neon
oarably the greatest literary mind o
:he century and n OF the giants o
The literary group of hlstory.-L0utS
vile Commercial.
Victor Hugo sternly reminded hi
country that virtue was not a mere
sentimental whim, that morality wa
not mere prudery.-Philddclphia Bul
!etin.
In politics, he was largely instru
mental in creating in France the sen
timent upon which the Republic abides
-CinctnnatI It11es-:Star.
For sixty years his reputation wa
bounded only by the civilized world
7errc Haute, md, Saturday Erentn
Mail.
France has some extremely cleve
novelists. some men of genlus-Daude'
lola. Octave Feuillet-left. but the
are the satellites. The sun has gon
charlottesville Times.
..Well, then! Before this maste,
this triumpher. this conquerer, tn
dictator, this emperor, this all-powe
full. there rises a solitary man, Il wal
derer. despoiled, ruined, prostrat'
prescribed, and attacks him. Lou
Napoleon has ten thousand cannon
and five hundred thousand soldier
the writer has his pen and his inkstant
Tho ,rrttnr IL, nnthinr. ha is n ora
of dust, he is q shadow, he is an ext
without 4 refuge, he is a vagrant wit
out a passport; but he has by his sic
and fighting with him two powers,
Right, which is invincible, and Irutl
which is immortal. Victor Hugo,
1852.
He stood at the head of model
French literature. and as q patriot al
friend of humanity there has been
more eloquent defender and advocat
-New Orleans CITY Item.
Fearless and strongminded to Il
last, the old poet died w%orthily. Slo'
ly and quietly he sank until the feeb
breath could keep the struggling spil
no longer. Around Inn We're t
greatest names of France. At /
door were academicians. noblcme
authors.-KnnSGS city Times.
OF the three great reprcsentatl
men of the three great European L
tons. neither Bismarck in Germa'
nor Gladstone IN England has enjoy
the undisputed pre-eminence accord
by universal suffrage to Victor HUI
in France.-Philadekphia Times.
80 find a man as completely gre
in France we must go back to Voltail
whose genius that of Hugo perha
least resembles. Indeed, the me
juxtaposition of the two names is Il
of suggestion, for to Noltaire the de
poet would have been 4 source OF Inc
haustible merriment, q fountain
epigrams, q new world to conquer a
expiorc.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Few men who have ever lived are
secure in fame as Victor hugo
Richmond, "a, State.
For a score OF years his litera
fame blazed in Paris circles, before
spread throughout the world.-Ha
tord. Conn, Euenil9 Post.
He was the greatest writer of
century IN France, if not the world
Philadelphia CuU.
Victor Hugo was one OF tho I
writer's whose works can be jude
il the TRANSACTIONS. His French
idiomatic. intricate and rugged,
its peculiar force lies in the antlthc
and ab%ruptness OF the thought,
this popularity is maintained IN
best of the English TRANSACTIONS
DenUe7 Times.
That his works have been SO acce
able among many nations whose RI
orleans smile mt his style is the ii