The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06

ment are directly aud really responsible
President Carnot and his advisers have
never received q material rebuke from the
! chamber. Nevertheless. every oace in
about three or four weeks il IS observed
that the cable carries to England ad
America news Of an impending ministerial
/ crisis in France
Great caution should be exercised in i'm
\ plicitly believing such reports. Il is rarely,
IN that Origlnators speak &c c1thedrd, any
7 given question, even supposing that Ques-
| ton TO be the overthrow Of existing govern
mental conditions, and the submission,
| therefore, Of an interregnum Of anarchy
across which one Of the groups mixht hope
to leap 70 power, there IS not the
remotest chance for agreement between
these discOrdans elements. This fact
| has been repeatedly substantiated In
the very recent past. Even were it posi-
bic to dangerously unite the clashIng, jeal-
Gus dictionaries on a single proposition,
breath from the executive or the foreign
affairs Office, would instantaneously cause
their ranks to disintegrate and resolve them
selves back 70 their former state Of i'm
potency. Carnot or De Freycinet have
but 70 utter the word war; and all
France would rush to form a hollow
square, IN the midst of which would be
found, safeguardsd, the republic and its
administration. Gentlemen VINO are writing
on that very interesting subject, French
politics, would do well 70 reflect that the
present council of ministers has never been
near the point where necessity existed for
It's playing that trump card which invaria-
Oily snatches the parliamentary opposition
10 Is card which Tears upon its face the
legend, La Pdtrfe en- danger.
The comparatively successful and aspiring
man Of considerable ability, though limited
genius, who knows, or. rather fancies he
KnnUa wt n - aIv l.
unhappy. Not superlatively 50, but simply
relatively. 1t is observed that such a per-
son cannot even derive the selfish satisfac-
ton which might be obtained from a COM
garrison of his lot with that OF the swarm
ing, almost hopeless. masses below, or with
that OF the restless, surging and pre-
sumptious mob, who push, jostle aud
elbow him for fighting space in the rude
battlefield Of life. The first be will either
despise or ignore; the latter he will hate or
fear, according to the measure OF their sue
cess as compared with his own But il is
tue fellow human right above and just be-
yond him for whom he reserves that De-
culiar regard which is made up of envy and
admiration, in the proportion of three parts
OF the former to one Of the latter Man and
the hyena have much in common. l am
led 10 these reflections through q CON
sideration of the case of NJ Emile lola. who
is certainly among the unhappiest of men.
bis being so goes, as 1t happens, to REIN
force the truthfulness Of what has Just been
written. 1t is not enough for Emile that he
Is but 81 years Of age; that he was educated
at the Lycee st. Louis; that he enjoyed
that complete. practical training obtain able
only with the Hachette publishing firm,
and finally, that he is recognized as great in
his way, however men may differ as to
cleanliness and wholesomeness of the
way. King Lear was, indeed, a merry old
III
realism" lola has just now two particu-
lar grievances. One is that English-speak-
ing people do not understand him; the Sec
ond, that the academy is given to looking
askance at him. 1t does no good for his
French confreres TO talk to him of the glory
OF being the creator of "L'Assom-
moir," mana" and LA Bette HUMANE
"Gentlemen OF the Glorious Ribbon" in
vain greet him as a chevalier of the Lee
Eion of Honor. All useless! Occasionally
the gay bohemian comes along and brightly
refers TO some brilliant things of Zola's in
the VOttdire or the Figaro. Utterly wasted
All toys, familiar, worn out toys; idle lum-
Der OF an exhausted past. NJ. lola
signs for a future which shall have
Ia its close perspective a fduteuI of
the French Academy. Not much for him
TO aspire to when one reflects that from
time immemorial children have cried for
| the moon. 1t is, nevertheless sad TO see a
man capable Of doing, in the future, much
more OF good for his kind than he has ac-
! complished in the past moping and cropping
about in quest Of dead mems shoes.
Learned, franc-loving and observing,
as he undoubtedly Is, lola is incon-
testibly awaiting the time when
desolating pestilehce shall so declminate the
'Immortals" by mortal stroke as to compel
the surviving few to admit him within the
hallowed precincts. Before this subject is
dismissed, cannot help saying that our
novelist gains nothing by making the charge
that much Of his strength is wrung out In
the process of translation. The assertion is
true, but is 30 in double sense English
readers are, perhaps, deprived Of the enjoy
ment of responsively thrilling to the
full force of some hundreds
of undesirable dramatic coups of
the great realist. as made in his mother
tongue. On the other hand, they may
thank the translating buffers for having
spared them knowledge of the analytical,
painstaking particularism. with which
lola reaches down to claw and grasp in the
slime aud filth of life, for material where-
withal to make still more hideous those
things in our common humanity, which in
| themselves are more than sufficiently re-
| pulsive. PAUL DE BARsAC.
RESCUED FROM MoRMONS.