The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-27
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THE PRESENT lola AND THE FOR
MER HUGO.
What Hugo Said of His Exile For
ty-Six Years Ago-TaIk of Il Vic
tor Hugo RevivaI-A Man OF Flu
rious Energy and Industry-New
Books From Boston Publishers.

fIOuS Energy ana inOuStry--NeW
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Correspondence The ST. Paul Globe.
BOSTON, Feb. 24.-''It is not I that
am banished, but liberty; it is not I
who am exiled, but France" wrote
Victor Hugo in Brussels, forty-siX
years ago. France, an outcast from
justice, from greatness, is France in
exile and stranger to herself. Let
US pity her, and love her more than
ever" The spirit Of the words differs
widely from that audible in any of
the many-voiced cries with which an
Europe and the United States. NJ.
lola loves Paris; ali, how devotedly!
But he loves her with the discretion
of a betrothed lover, who would fain
preserve his right to expect handsome
wedding gifts in the present and lib
eral requests in the future from the
kindred of the beloved object. He
loves not only the Exquisite virtues"
but the horrible vices" which he dis
Germs in her. He is no rigid moral
list to be shocked by a vile crime, nor
is he a sinner not to be attracted by
religion and it's manifestations. No,
no! He has a profound love and adj
miration for this Paris, in which, as
in the witches cauldron in Macbeth
there is everything. all that is best
and all that is worst" Here is the
new books, messieurs, Here it is, Show
ing that Paris is more pious than
Lourdes, more truly the worlds cpl
tome than Rome The author has not
discovered Paris, nor done for NOtre
Dame what he has done for St. Peter"
but he has described her. VOLTA, mes
seurs. ct mesdames, and remember
Iaffairs Dreyfus, and all the authors
previous novels. This book explains
all of them, and remember, please, that
the last three describe successive con-
ditiors of the soul"
All things considered, it is immense
ly funny. Parisians, like Victor Hugo,
do not read Shakespeare, and the IN
fortunate confusion of Macbeth's caul-
drOn with an Ola pOdrida will not trou-
bic them, but they do read Hugo, and
the pointed omission of Hugo's name
in the reference to Notre Dame will
be ascrbed to envy. NJ lola will be
Indifferent, provided they buy. He who
has fought with the thing that calls
itself justice in France is not easily
disturbed, especially when he has Sc
cured a good publisher, Messrs. Mac
MILAN, no less! There was a day of
great virtue. when Messrs. Macmillan
found Mr.. Crawford's ITO Leeward"
too wicked, and allowed it to be taken
to Messrs. HOughtOn, Miflin & Co.,
whose readers, finding that the bad
heroine died in her sins and could not
well be regarded IS encouraging crime,
counseled its acceptance Today Mr..
Crawford is recommended by the strict
est Catholic moralists, and NJ. ZOla is
on the index, and Messrs. Macmillan
publish both. They WIN also soon be
gin to issue the four volumes of Hulk
ley's scientific papers, prepared by Sir
Michael Foster and Mr.. Z. Ray Lank-
ester; for the first volume is completed.
The papers are gathered from maya
zines of every species, but chiefly from
those of a scientific bias.
There seems to be a possibility of a
NictCr Hugo revival, that is to say,
a revival of Victor Hugo in English.
MI. r. FarquharSon Sharp, of the Brit
ish museum, has translated 'Hernani"
and it will soon appear in London with
an introduction, and Saturday of next
week, the second volume of his letters,
edited by NJ. Paul Meurice, will appear
from the press of Messrs. Houghton
Miflin & Co. The editor was one Of
those friends of Charles and Francois
Victor Hugo, who were as devoted to
the poets as if they were his sons il
reality, as they were in playful phrase,
and he has chosen such letters as rep
resent almost every possible side of the
poets nature, even to that in which
in 1882 he wrote to the emperor Of Aus
tria:
1 have received in the course of two
days, eleven telegraphic messages from the