The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-10
LECTURES ON HUGO
DIR. JONES PAYS FINE TRIBUTE TO
 FRENCH NOVELIST.
ssGreat by All the Tests of Greatness.' Was the ExiIed Writer--spol<e at Night on Re-
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As in his two previous lectures in Montgomery the strong, magnetic per- soniality of Dr. JeniSin Lloyd Jones of Chicago. enhanced and in q measare tended to the glorihcation of the sub ject of the third of his lectures before A large and cultured audience com posed Of the literary men and women of Montgomery.
 In the vestry room of the Temple Beth Or yesterday afternoon pr. Jones eulogized the great French novelist and man of letters. Victor Hugo. as being great by all the tests of greatness great with the greatest of greatness
 .In his long life of eighty-three years. Hugo lived" said Dr. Jones, 'to note the great historical convulsions or the century--in fact to be himseh pars of these convulsions.
 Of the man and his religion DF. Jones said he had the great faith of uni- versal religion which enabled him to write the book Religion and Religion.
 "Once he believed in religion on ac- count of the priest, he came, after ward, to believe in religion in spite or the priest" declared pr. Jones. a
 Of his fame, scope and power of his work, of the many-sided and many handed character of his genius, pr Jones declared Hugo as standing out against the horizon line of history like some Colossus. gigantic, sublime.
 Of his works In fiction Les Miser- ables," said Dr. Jones, Ifs his master niece, and probably the greatest work of literary fiction ever projected by the human mind"
 As a poet he seemed to have touched with a masters hand all the chords ofrthe lyfe-baliads, lyrics. odes and dramas.
 Of the novels of the great French man, pr. Jones mentioned especially Hans of Iceland" "Notre Dame Of .,,a ra- ris" ssThe Toilefs of the Sea-, The Man Who Laughs 'Ninety-tbree,' and Les MiserabIes," saying that these alone gave him place among the great est of novelists.
 Another and just as wonderful and as beautiful side of the mans ciarae- ter, as shown by pr. Jones, was his love of his country, of his city. his home. He was French of the French. lord of human tears.
 He was a lover of his fellow man, A believer in human nature, and through all the vicissitudes of life he cheerfuIly submitted to the inevitable, clinsine always to the everlasting nope" both on this side and on the other side of death.
 Of the boy, victor" Dr. Jones gave A 2raDnlC ana UGdutAkhA aNEVdhhl AhSH' tbe date of his birth, his strange pre- natal betrothal to Adele Boucher, his marriage, his controversies, and trou- bles with the little Napoleon" as he called him. and of his escape from ar rest and subsequent passage through the lines into Brussels, where he be- came one of the colony of French refu- gees from the fury of Napoleon and his Government.
 Dr. Jones spoke eloquently of the life pf Hugo in his exile home on the little island of Jersey and of the work which he did while there.
 He had declared that he would never return to Paris until France was free, and after years of waiting the longed- for hour came--the "hour of justice" for which he had patiently awaited. France was free--at least, free from nome tyranny.
 pr. Jones said the last seventeen years of his life marked "the sunset