Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-29

brothers Eugene and Victor. An nf-
lection sprauE up between hcr ans tho
latter. which ripened into love. Twelve
years passed. the love " the young
fchOolmatcB strengthened with the
year., but was opposed by Mdllc.
FUucher's parents. In 1890 Madame
Hugo died. The night Of her death
10 a ball. There Victor followed her.
told her OF his bereavement, and en-
treated her 20 become HE bctrothsd,
They mingled their tears" says one
.biographer, and Adele Fouchcr. drawn
closer TO her lover with the cords q
sympathy. declared herself engaged 90
him. Notwithstanding her parents op-
HuEo's family life was broken up by
his mothers death. lie went TO his
Earrct, this young attic philosopher.
whore he had barely enough 20 keep
body and soul together. living on less
than 1000 francs $500 a year. He
was his own housenaid and cook. lie
used 10 creep out after dark to tho
butchers and buy himself chop,
which served him for three days.
All this time the impccunous poet
was thrurtiug poems. essaya and
pamphlets upon a slowly but surely ap-
prcciativc world, Hugo was an en-
thuslaat. an agltator ana at firrt
paasloniat royaliat. lie knew no mod
Grafton, either In his political beliefs or
his writings Ills imagination indulEvd
In monstrous fanoie-, his poems. In
which his soul poured ltself forth In
streams Of lava" RHtonished and won
| France. Chateaubrand named aim
| renfant sublime. the French academy
crowned two of his odoa In other
words. fame and fortune smiled upon
this young genius and brought with
them the contamination Of his hearts
deairc-his marriage with Adele
| Foucher.
Victor Hugo's letters to HIS wife. his
family and his friends have already
been given 10 tho world, hut OF those
struggling years. when fortune and
that same then unwoocd world werc
against him, when no could look only
10 the one faithful heart and his own
burning genius for comfort. OF those
years and the vital element which
moulded them we can only learn FROM
the post himself lie has told II To
but one woman.
To crlticise literary man like Mr.
James II, no doubt. the height Of pre-
sumption. hut many n tyro has select
ed for his first volume utter title
than that chosen By Mr.. James for his
last for 'rhe Awkward Agr" Harpcr)
| o. not only clumsy, but, In the cunncc-
ton used almost devoid u Higuin.
canos. one of Robert BROW nlnga ad o.
| fNANfNNf NnANNk ~ AAllNNAAAN IN NNllINnH
hrnding a certain passage In the phil
oHopher'a poetry, wrote him letter
inqulrinR the meaning Of the line. and
IN due time received a polite answer.
In which the poet stated that while he
had no doubt he meant something or
other when he wrote n. he had forgot
ten what u was, An honest confession
Ia on proycrbid authority good Tor
the soul, whatever ita effect on the
reputation, though whether Sir James
viii have the cnndor OF MT browning
Ia clearing up the mystery Of his latest
title Is yet to be asoerrtalned.
In Mr.. Cables "stryng Hearts
(Scribncr'). there Ia an impressive
picture OF a man who, 10 shun tempta-
ton, sails TO an uninhablted island and
destroys the boat which conveyed him
thithsr. The idea, though forced and
unnatural, II not unique. for It II but
one phase Of the m0nachism which,
during the first Ave centuries. drove
Thousands OF human being TO dens IN
the mountains and novels In the deH-
ort: which impcllcd them 10 ny from
the world and MAKE their abodes on
thu tops Of lofty pillars or In the cleftl
OF almost Inaccessible crugs. The
shores u the Red Sea. the mountains
Of Syria and Palestine. sheltered thou
patuta; the clins Of Theasaiy and
Macedonia today are alive with nn-
ohortteA Mr.. Cables hermit II no nov.
city; he Is only one example OF a class
which has existed ever since the his.
tory Of religion began
Jesus Delaney" IL the odd tito Of
an odd story by Joseph Gordon Don.
nelly, II centcrs about one Of tho
struggling Protestant missions OF
Catholic Mexico, and has for It's hero
the grandson 81 Mexican soldier
sired by one OF the emlEres. whose
blood palea the competitions OF tho
southern republic The novel II breezy
and vigorous and has some cnustic
bits I'm Il, ouch ~ ~ characterization
Of ono of the conEula who misrcprcaenl
the United states In foreign countries
There " plenty Of hghung. drinking
loycmhlSing ana rlntlng, with sidelghti
on tho innate corruption of the on,
cialA OF the republic, and It's code of
honor.