The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-10


 book In cen volumes in the original French and is a novel with purpose; or. rather. it is q great philosophical of a story seem to be introduced main ly for the illustration of principles The mention of ruined garden. of most anything great or small. is liable to start the author off on train of thought in which he drops the an excursion into chapters of fascinat- ing. philosophical discourse. The love story-gtrange fact for French novel late and logically. The character around which the novel grows is that H1 sean hs and it s the pies of I. Corinthians. xiii. The follow ing is aP tPs attempt tarT # t0 tell n limited developed as Hugo developed it, and to give some faint idea of his peculiar literary style.
 N M CIR. MYRIEL was Bishop of IN b. At the beginning of
 his episcopate he apportioned
 out the revenues of his see 10 charities, reserving to himself barely enough for his own simple wants and those of his aged sister and one old servant.
 The episcopal palace was large. and the hospital. which adjoined 1t. was small and crowded. The bishop lns- formed the hospital to the pail nd moved himself into the lit hae which had been the ilospitn g-r not only that charity which a.. it's goods to feed the 'iesr -t-4 larger charity which things, believeth all asas 4&t .- faileth In it's kind, .-ls and oppressed.
 One evening" aP- sitting down 9sa5 r.uV there came est q rE - response sss 4" there ay -aa ssd, with F. tar s and
 2 : v.. s'1s, Ia upon him; Il sinister ap- aljean, former
 2 graduate of s1.t..u efore this man, then T -Rels 4th trying to support AS pruner and farm
 Iwed sister and her seven
 d been arrested for steal sa.f of bread and sent to the It was a hard winter and
 was scarce. Valjean's little ne-
 ls and nieces wanted bread. That
 why, in a moment of weakness. he Cole the loaf. Then came his nineteen years of criminal servitude, and 1t turned him out a brute-a fierce brute with great physical strength and a grievance against organized society. which had dealt so hardly with him. Law and order represented to him something with which. hereafter, he was to be perpetually at war; the bea- tikudes meant only tricks with which , to fool the simple minded.
 In defending itself, society had amU- a~- T~.
 0oiled in the production of a creature like Jean Val5ean. He had been liber- ated from the bagne four days before and was travelling about with the noney gfvcn him at his discharge, and with the yellow passport allowed to Nx-convtcts.
 They had put him out of the inn at D----- when they saw this yellow pass port. In all that city he had been unable to find shelter A kind woman directed him to the door of the good bishop. The bishop heard Jean Val jeans story and bade him be seated ct the table-calling him Monsieur. which gladdened the heart of the gal ley slave As was customary with the. bishop when he had a guest, he order ed his scanty assortment of plate to be placed on the table These few pieces of plate and a pair of silver candlesticks were the only luxuries the bishop permitted himself.
 After supper Jean Valjean was taken to a bed in an alcove off of a little oratory. In the middle of the night he arose, stole the bishops plate, and departed The police, finding him wandering about with the plate in his possession, arrested and brought him carly the next morning before the bishop.
 You have made mistake" said the bishop to the officer of gendarmes. '"The plate is my gift to him" And then turning to Valjean. Why did you not take the candlesticks also? I gave them to you"
 Handing the massive pieces of silver to the outcast, he whispered in his ear: Never forget that you have promised to employ this money as be- comes an honest man. Jean Vatican, my brotherl You no longer belong to evil, but to good. have bought your soul of you. I withdraw 1t from per- dition and black thoughts and give 1t to God"
 So Valjean went out into the world again. In a country road he met little Gervals. a Savoyard boy, flipping