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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1843, 28 November 1874, Page 3

Victor Hugo's Eomances.—Having learned to subordinate his story to an idea, to make his art speak, he went on to teach it to say things heretofore unaccustomed. If you look back at five books of his you will be astonished at tho freedom with which the original purposes of story-telling have been laid aside and })assed by. Where are now the two overs who descended the main watershed of all the Waverly novels, and all the novels that have tried to follow in their wake? Sometimes they are almost lost sight of before the solemn isolation of a man against the sea and sky, as in " Les Miserable 3," they merely figure for a while, as a beautiful episode in tho epic of oppression; sometimes they are entirely absent, as in " Quatre Yingt Treize." Ihere is no hero in " JSTotre Dame;" in "Les Miserables" it is an old man; in " L'Homme gui Eit" it is a monster; in " Quatre Vingt Treize "it is the Revolution. These elements that only begin to show themselves timidly, as adjuncts in the novels of Walter Scott, have usurped ever more and more of the canvas untill we find the whole interest of one of Hugo's romances centering around matter that Fielding would have banished from his altogether, as beingoutof the field of fiction. So we have elemental forces occupying nearly as large a place, playing, so to speak, nearly as important a role as the man Gilliat, who opposes and overcomest them. So we find the fortunes of a nation put upon the stage with, as much vividness as ever before the fortunes of a village maiden or a lost heir ; and the forces that oppose and corrupt a principle holding the attention quite as strongly as the wicked barons attorny of the past. Hence those individual interests that were supreme in Fielding, and even in Scott, stood out over everything else, and formed, as it were the spine of the story, figure here as only one set of interests among many sets, one force among many forces, one thing to be treated out of a whole world of things equally vivid and important. So that, for Hugo, man is no longer an insolated spirit without antecedent or relation here below, but a being involved in the action and reaction : or a unit in a great multitude, chased hither and thither by epidemic terrors and aspirations, and in all seriosness, blown about by every wind of doctrine. This is a long way that we have travelled ; between such word and all the work o Fielding is there not, indeed, a great gulf in thought and sentiment?—Cornhill Magazine. Brooklyn boasts of the champion liar, but is troubled to know just who the indiyidual is* A Sudden Wbench foe Alt, we Love. —A gormandising Pennsvlvanian passed away while yet in tbe midst of his fortieth quart of peanuts. ■

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