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Contents: The resources of Wales -- The working classes of Wales -- The working classes of Wales and religious institutions -- The alleged unchastity of Wales -- Education in Wales -- Welsh literature -- The church establishment in Wales in relation to the Welsh people -- Welsh dissent: a letter to the Bishop of Llandaff, with His Lordship's reply -- The Congregational churches of Wales -- The Congregational churches and the English population of Wales -- The great revival in South Wales in 1849 -- The Irish and Welsh revivals in 1859. "Most of the Papers in this collection have appeared at different times, within the last fifteen years. in the Metropolitan or local Newspaper". [Preface, p. [v]]. Printed by R. Griffiths, Swansea. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available John Snow & Co.; E. 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The Committee have to thank those members of the Sunday School Association, and other friends, who were so kind as to look over the proof sheets of this Catalogue, and to return them with friendly approbation of the undertaking, thoughtful criticism, and valuable suggestions. Of these last, many have thankfully been accepted, and others, which must be postponed owing to pressure of time and want of room in the Catalogue, will appear in a Second Edition, which it is the present intention of the Committee to bring out at no distant period. In the present Edition, great pains have been taken to ensure correctness in the information given in the various columns ; and, although the Editors cannot hope to have kept their work quite free from mistakes, they believe these will be found to be very few. The Classification will indicate in a general way the use to which each work is adapted. In Part I. books have been selected with a view to the very varied qualifications of the teachers in our Sunday Schools—those which will be found most useful to the large class of teachers who have not much time for preparation being marked by an asterisk. As, moreover, many of the books placed in the Young People’s List might with advantage be read to the scholars, the Catalogue, it is hoped, will afford no inconsiderable help to that class of teachers which most needs help. Doubtless further research, especially in the field of American Sunday School literature, will enable future editors to add most usefully to this portion of the Catalogue. In Part I. a few valuable books have been retained, which, although they are known to be now out of print, may still be found in libraries, and occasionally purchased at second-hand. No apology is needed for the introduction into the Teachers’ List of works by those well-known orthodox writers, whose learning, eloquence, and earnest religious feeling, every cultivated mind will be glad occasionally to be in company with. In connection with the Young People’s Historical Fiction, however, it ought to be pointed out that the novels of Mrs. Charles must be taken with reservation. The theology is decidedly objectionable ; and the books should, there fore, be read by those who are of an age to have been taught other religious views, but who, at the same time, are able to take delight �iv INTRODUCTION. in the living impression conveyed by the author of the spirit of the times in which the scenes are laid. These books are placed in the Catalogue for the sake of their historical, not their theological truth. In the Children’s Fiction, the “ Leilas,” and the stories by the author of “ Jessica’s First Prayer,” though orthodox, have been accepted for the sake of their singular beauty, which, it is thought, outweighs the objectionable dogma. Sections II., III., IV., and V. of Part II. will, it is hoped, prove useful in the formation of School Libraries. A feeling is growing very rapidly in the educational world that it is of the utmost importance to cultivate the observing powers of children, and as this is to be done only by bringing them in contact with things, it has been judged not out of place to introduce into the Catalogue the mention of the Kindergarten and of the Scientific Apparatus and Collections, Models, &c., &c., sold by Myers & Co.* These will be found useful at Week-day Evening Classes, Lectures, &c. The following abbreviations are used in the Catalogue :— A. U. A. » American Unitarian Association. B. & F. U. A. British and Foreign Unitarian Association, R. T. S. - Religious Tract Society. S. P. C. K. - Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. S. S. A. - Sunday School Association. 8. S. S. - Sunday School Society. (Boston, U. S.) S. S. U. - Sunday School Union. As the publication of the Catalogue has been attended with con siderable expense, it is suggested that those who avail themselves of it may do something to reimburse the Association, by becoming subscribers to its funds. A subscription of five shillings a year entitles the member to purchase all the books of the Association at a reduction of threepence in the shilling, and all other publications ordered through the Association at a reduction of twopence in the shilling. Schools are entitled to the same privileges in the matter of books, on an annual payment of five shillings, if they contain thirty children, or of half-a-crown, if they contain fewer than thirty. Subscriptions and donations should be sent to the Treasurer, Mr. F. Nettlefold, 54, High Holborn, London, W.C. * 15, Berners Street, Oxford Street, London. �CONTENTS. PART I. FOR TEACHERS. BOOKS i>AGS PAGE The Scriptures . . .9 : Commentaries, Dictionaries, and . Doctrinal Works . . .10 . Works of Criticism . .13 Sermons...................................... 13 . .15 . .15 ... .17 Books of Religion History . . Ethical Works . Biography...................................... 20 Geography and General Descrip tion of the Holy Land Manners and Customs Manuals and Text-Books Science................................... Primers . ... . Scientific Apparatus . Nature Books, &c. Works on Education . Periodicals . . . . 22 24 24 26 27 27 27 29 30 PART II. BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. SECTION I.—SUNDAY SCHOLARS’ BOOKS OF RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION. For Little Children . For Younger Scholars . For Elder Scholars . . . . .35 .35 .36 Sunday Scholars’ Hymn and Ser vice Books . . . .37 �VI CONTENTS. SECTION II.-BOOKS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. PAGE Nature Poetry . . . 39 39 PAGE Fiction . . The Kindergarten . 40 41 SECTION III.--BOOKS FOR CHILDREN. Biography . . ■ 42 Voyages and Travels, and Tales Illustrating Geography . 42 History 43 Nature Poetry Fiction . . . . . . . . .... . 43 . 46 . 46 SECTION IV.—BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Biography . Geography, Voyages, Travels History Nature 55 56 57 57 Poetry .... Fiction .... Historical Fiction . 58 . 59 . 61 SECTION V.—PERIODICALS, &c. Periodicals........................................................... Chambers’s Miscellany of Instructive and Entertaining Tracts. „ Papers for the People. 64 �PAR® I BOOKS FOR TEACHERS. ��PART I. BOOKS FOR TEACHERS. THE SCRIPTURES. TITLE. Publisher. Price. Chambers ... 30/- * School and Children’s Bible........ Rev. Wm. Rogers.. Longmans... 2/- Author or Editor. ^Pictorial Bible, The, 4 vols.......... Kitto [Notes by Dr. Kitto. Steel Engravings and Maps.] [On the whole a good abridgment: the principle of omitting what is un suited to the young might have been carried further with advantage.] * Bible for Vol. I. Young People, The, Dr. H. Oort Williams & Norgate. 4/- Whitfield ... 7/6 Old Testament, Revised Transla Wellbeloved, Porter B & E. U. A. and Smith. tion of the. 6/- [A Critical, Historical, and Moral Hand book to the Old and New Testament. Vol. I., translated by the Rev. P. H. Wicksteed, contains an Introduction, and treats of the generations before Moses.] Hebrew Scriptures, The, 3 vols.... S. Sharpe [A Revision of the Authorized English Old Testament.] 10/6 half-bound. Greek Testament, The, 4 vols......... Dean Alford Rivingtons... 102/- [With a Critically Revised Text, various Readings, Marginal References, Pro legomena, and a Commentary.] Vol I.—The Gospels.......... .. . Vol. II.—Acts, Romans, Corinthians. Vol. III.—Galatians to Philemon....... Vol. IV.—Hebrews to Revelation...... Greek Testament, The...................... Griesbach 28/24/18/.32/Whitaker ... 1/- �10 BOOKS FOR TEACHERS. Author or Editor. TITLE. Publisher. Price. THE SCRIPTURES—continued. New Testament for Readers, The, 2 vols. English Dean Alford.......... Rivingtons .. 54/6 [Revised:—6/-, 3/6, 1/6, Strahan.] New Testament, The ....................... Rev. Dr. G.R. Noyes A.U.A........ 6/- Revised S. Sharpe.............. J. R. Smith. 1/6 * New Testament, The, with various Tischendorf.......... Low .......... Readings. 21- Paragraph New Testament, The... -/9 New Testament, Translation. The, 3/- half-bound. [To Sunday Schools, -/6; roan, -/10; calf or morocco, 1/6.] [Dialogues printed as Dialogues—Ad dresses subdivided according to their Topics. Bible in the Press.] COMMENTARIES, DICTIONARIES, CRITICISM. Brit. & For. Bible Soc. AND WORKS OF ^People’s Dictionary of the Bible, Rev. Dr. J. R. Beard Simpkin ... 2 vols. 16/6 Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. ... Dr. Wm. Smith .... Murray ...... * Concise Bible Dictionary .......... Dr. Wm. Smith ... Murray...... 105/21/- [Maps and 300 Illustrations, Con densed from his Dictionary of the Bible.] Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature, Rev. Dr. Kitto...... Longmans... 3 vols. * Treasury of Bible Knowledge, Rev. J. Ayre ...... Longmans... 70/- 6/- Calf, 10/6. [A Dictionary of the Books, Persons, Places, Events, &c., men tioned in Scripture. Maps, 16 Plates, Woodcuts, &c.] Spirit of the Bible, 2 vols. ........... Rev. E. Higginson Whitfield ... Historical Notes on the Bible....... S. Sharpe.............. J. R. Smith. * Chronology of the Bible............... S. Sharpe.............. J. R. Smith. 15/7/- . 2/- �11 BOOKS FOR TEACHERS. TITLE. ' Author or Editor. ' Publisher. Price. Bell & Daldy Griffin ....... Warne ....... J. Chapman. 2/3/6 7;6 24/- COMMENTARIES, &c.—continued. Hannay.................. Eadie..................... Youngman .......... Introduction to the Old Testament, De Wette.............. *Crudens Concordance ........... j 2 vols. 1) [Translated by Theodore Parker.] Introduction to the ment, 3 vols. Old Testa Dr. S. Davidson ... Williams & 42/- Norgate. Introduction to the Old Testa Bleek, translated by Bell & Daldy Venables. ment, 2 vols. 18/- Short Notes on Hebrew Scriptures S. Sharpe.............. J. R. Smith. Psalms, The .................................... Rev. Dr.G.R. Noyes A. U. A....... 2/6 5/- Job, The Book of ........................... Rev.Dr.G.R.Noyes A. U.A....... Hebrew Prophets, The, 2 vols. .,. Rev. Dr. Rowland Williams & Norgate. Williams. Prophets, The, 2 vols........................ Rev.Dr.G.R.Noyes A. U. A....... 22/6 Isaiah, The Book of ....................... Rev. T. K. Cheyne Macmillan... 7/6 5/- 10/- [Chronologically arranged.] Introduction to the New Testa Dr. S. Davidson... Longmans... ment, 2 vols. 30/- Critical Notes on the New Testa S. Sharpe.............. J. R. Smith. 2/6 ment. Biblical Commentary on the Gos Dr. Olshausen...... T. & T. Clark 42/pels and, Acts, 4 vols. [Translated from the German. The Commentaries of Olshausen and Meyer are valuable, and, though orthodox, are very fair in tone.] Commentary on the Gospels, 2 Rev. A. Livermore. A. U. A....... vols. 10/- * Notes on the Parables................... Archbishop Trench Macmillan... 12/- Commentary on St. John’s Gospel Dr. H. A. W. Meyer T.&T. Clark 10/6 [Subscription price of Meyer’s Com mentaries, 21/- for 4 vols.] Attempt to ascertain the Charac Rev. J. J. Tayler... Williams & Norgate. ter of the Fourth Gospel. B 4/6 �12 BOOKS FOR TEACHERS. TITLE. Author or Editor. Publisher. Price. COMMENTARIES, &c.—continued. Fourth Gospel, the Heart of Christ, Rev. E. H. Sears... Low .......... The. 12/6 Commentary on the Acts ............... Rev. A. Livermore. A. U. A....... Life and Epistles of St. Paul. Rev. J. Conybeare, Longmans... M.A., and Very Library Edition, 2 vols. Rev. J. S. How- 48/- [All the original Illustrations, Maps, Landscapes on Steel, Woodcuts, &c.] 5/- son, D D., Dean of Chester. Intermediate Edition, 2 vols. [Selections of Maps, Plates, and Woodcuts. | Longmans... 21/- * Student’s Edition, 1 vol. [Revised and Condensed, with 45 Ulustrations and Maps.J • Longmans... 9/- Commentary on the Epistles to Rev. B. Jowett...... Murray...... Thessalonians, Galatians, Ro mans, 2 vols. 30/- [Out of print.] Commentary on the Romans ....... Rev. A. Livermore. A. U. A....... St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans Bishop Colenso ... Macmillan... [Newly Translated.] Biblical Commentary on the Ro- Dr. Olshausen...... T.&T. Clark mans. Commentary on the Romans ....... Dr. Meyer.............. T. & T. Clark Commentary on the Epistles to Dean Stanley ...... Murray...... Corinthians. 5/- 7/6 10/6 10/6 18/- [Out of print.] Commentary on the Epistle to the Rev. J. H. Thom... Triibner...... Corinthians. 5/- Biblical Commentary Corinthians. 9/- on the Dr. Olshausen...... 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Charles Beard Whitfield ... 5/- Outlines of Christian Faith ....... Rev. C. C. Coe...... S. S. A........ 1/- Orthodoxy ; its Truths and Errors Rev. Dr. J. Free A.U.A........ 5/- 1/6 man Clarke. Rationale of Religious Inquiry... Rev. J. Martineau.. Whitfield ... 4/6 Steps of Belief ................................ Rev. Dr. J. F. Clarke A. U. A....... 41- Studies of Christianity ............... Rev. J. Martineau. A. U. A...... 5/- Spirit and Word of Christ, The... Rev. Dr. G. Vance Longmans... 3/6 Smith. Unitarianism in the Present Time Rev. John Orr...... Whitfield ... 4/6 SERIVIONS. * Christian Aspects of Faith and Rev. J. J. Tayler... Longmans ... Duty. 7/6 Christ in Modern Life................... Rv.StopfordBrooke King & Co... 6/- * Daily Duty and Daily Care....... Rev. J. P. Hopps... Triibner...... 2/- David ................................................ Rev. C. Kingsley... Macmillan... 2/6 [Five Sermons.] �14 BOOKS FOR TEACHERS. 1 TITLE. Author or Editor. Publisher. 1 Price. 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Macmillan... 1 6/[Second Series of 42.] Rugby Sermons................................ Rev. Dr. Temple... Macmillan... [Third Series of 36.] Sermons, 4 vols. ........ .............. 5 Rev. F. Robertson.. King & Co... 3/6 ea. Sermons for the Times............... Rev. J. P. Hopps... Triibner...... , 2A Sermons preached in the Chapel Rev. H. Montagu Macmillan...' 7/6 ea. Butler. of Harrow School, 2 series. Shipwrecks of Faith....................... Archbishop Trench Macmillan... [Balaam, Saul, and Judas.] 2/6 ’i Spiritual Religion ........................ Rev. J. Drummond Longmans... < 6/Ten Sermons ........................... Rev. Theo. Parker. Triibner...... 6/- �15 BOOKS FOR TEACHERS. TITLE. ' Author or Editor. Publisher. Price. 1 1 1 ETHICAL WORKS. r,’ 1 Book of Job, The ............................ Fronde ................. Trii brier........ 1/- * Character........................................ S. Smiles .............. Murray...... 6/- Essays, Philosophical and Theo- Rev. J. Martineau. Triibner...... logical, 2 vols. 24/- Moral and Metaphysical Philo Rev. F. D. Maurice Macmillan... 25/sophy, 2 vols. [Vol. I., Ancient Philosophy, from the 1st to the 13th centuries. Vol. II., 14th century and French Revolution, with a glimpse into the 19th century.] Proverbs and their Lessons........... Archbishop Trench Macmillan... 3/6 Religious Duty.......... .................... Miss Cobbe .......... Triibner...... 5/- * Religion in Common Life........... W. Ellis .............. Smith & Elder. 7/6 Broken Lights ................................ Miss Cobbe .......... Williams & 5/- [Religious Principle applied to Questions of Political Economy and Social Duty,] . BOOKS OF RELIGION. HISTORY, THEORY, etc,, OF RELI GION. [An Inquiry into the Present Condition and Future Prospects of Religious Faith.]' Norgate. Christ and other Masters............... Archdn. Hardwicke Macmillan... 10/6 Dawning Lights ..................... Miss Cobbe .......... 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Ecce Homo........................................ Macmillan... 6/[A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ.] Eighteen Christian Centuries....... Rev. J. White...... Blackwoods.. 6/Epochs of History, 4 vols............... Ed. E. A. Morris... Longmans... 2/6 ea. I.—Era of Protestant Revolution. II.—Crusades. III.—Thirty Years’ War. IV.—Lancaster and York. F. Seftbohm .......... G. W. Cox .......... S. R. Gardner...... J. Gai rd n er ............ Essays on Ecclesiastical Biography. Sir J. Stephen...... Longmans... Gustavus Adolphus in Germany, Archbishop Trench W.. Hunt & Co. and other Lectures on the Thirty Years’ War. * History of 3 vols. Christianity, The, Dean Milman ...... Murray...... [From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire.] 7/6 4>l- 18/- �18 BOOKS FOR TEACHERS. TITLE. Author or Editor. Publisher. Price. HISTORY—con tinued< History of Latin Christianity Dean Milman ...... 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[70 Hymns.] of the Korthem S. . ’/I Horthern S. S. A. S. A., Belfast. Young Christian’s Hymn Book ... Mary Carpenter ... Arrowsmith, -/3 Bristol. [20/- per 100.] * Sunday-School Hymn Book, The. Members Supplement to Young Christian’s Mary Carpenter ... Arrowsmith, Bristol. Hymn Book. [25/-per 100.] / -/4 �39 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. TITLE. Author or Editor. Publisher. Price. SECTION II. icnhs for Settle Cjnlbnn. NATURE. Child’s First Book of Natural History, The. Miss Bond................. Routledge ... 1/6 Routledge... 3/- [Written in Words of Four Letters.] Domestic Animals ........................ [Twelve large Coloured Pictures.] History of my Pets ........................ Routledge... -/4,-/6 Picture Book of the Sagacity of Animals. Routledge... 3/6 [Sixty Plates by Harrison Weir.] British Animals ..................... [A Toy Book.] RL’ZrZ A m.i/m.nJ,ft ............ [Twelve large Coloured Pictures.] Wol./l. A'n.i/mnljt (&. Tnv Rnnkl _ Routledge... -/6,1/Routledge... 3/- Routledge... -/6,1/- POE1rRY. Bushel of Merry Thoughts, A....... Wm. Busch.......... Low ........... 2/6 [Illustrated by Harry Bogers.] Easy Poems ........................... Routledge... -/4 Warne........ 5/- -/6 Cloth. Lears Nonsense Songs, &c............ Little Songs for Me to Sing........... Leslie .................. Cassell ...... 6/, Bell & Daldy 3/6 Nursery Carols................................ [Illustrated.] Nursery Nonsense............................ D’Arcy Thompson. Griffith....... 2/6,4/6 Rhymes for the Nursery ............... A. & J. Taylor...... Routledge... 1/Original Poems, 2 vols................... A. & J. Taylor...... Routledge... 1/- ea Vol. Complete, 1/6. Sing-Song Nursery Rhyme Book... C. Rosetti.............. Routledge ... [Beautifully Illustrated: very original: one or two of the pictures too sad: might be cut out.] 5/- �40 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. Author or Editor. TITLE. 1 Publisher. Price. Routledge... 2/- FIC1‘ION. 4 wi/hmmc __ __ . .<___ •.. .-- Mrs. Myrtle Aunt Maddy’s Diamonds ......... Mrs. Myrtle.......... Routledge... 1/- Jarrold ...... 2/6 Routledge... -/6 Aunt Annie’s Tales.'................. [“ Water Lily,” “ The Druid’s Retreat,” “ Mistletoe Bough,” “ Santa Claus.”] The Butterfly’s BaTl........................ Confessions of a Lost Dog ........... F.P. Cobbe ........... Strahan..^... s 2/- ' Country Scenes .......................■. Harriet Myrtle...... Warne ........ 1/S.S. A....... . 1Z. Cousins The ; and other Tales . .-. [Beautifully Illustrated.] Bell & Daldy 3/6 Fabulous Histories ........................ Mrs. Trimmer...... Routledge ... 1/6 Daisy’s Companions; or, Scenes from Child Life. History of the Robins ................... Mrs. Trimmer ...... Griffith ...... ,4/6,5/[A very nice Gift-hook.] Hymns in Prose ............................ Mrs. Barbauld...... Murray...... 5/- [Exquisitely Illustrated. A most beau tiful Gift-book.] Little Foundling, The .................... Mrs. Myrtle.......... Warne ....... Little Amy’s Birthday.................... Mrs. Myrtle.......... Warne ....... 1/- Partridge ... 1> S. S. A....... •1/- i Kindness to Animals .................... Mamma’s Return; and other Tales [Beautifully Illustrated.] Man of Snow, The ........................ Harriet Myrtle .... Warne ...... 1/- S. S. A..... . 1/- Master Jack ; and other Tales....... ........................... . [Beautifully Illustrated.] Picture Fables ................................ Otto Speckter...... Routledge... [Illustrations Coloured. about Cats, Dogs, &c.] 3/6 100 Fables Pet Lamb, The ........................ Harriet Myrtle...... Warne ....... 1/Seasons, The, 4 vols............................. Mrs. Marcet.......... Longmans... 2/- ea. Story of Our Doll............................ Mrs. Cupples ....... Nelson ...... 2/6 Mrs. Cupples ...... Routledge... 1/- Tales in Short Words ............... . �41 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. Author or Editor. TITLE, Publisher. Price FICTION—con tinued. Tales in Short Words ................... Miss Crompton ... Routledge... Tiny Stories .................................... Au. “ Meadow Lea” Griffith ...... 1/- 2/6 [Easy Words in Large Type.] Trottie s Story Book .................. Au. “Meadow Lea ” Griffith ...... 2/6 [Coloured Pictures, 3/6.] Willy’s Holidays ............................ Mrs. Marcet.......... Longmans... 2/6 THE KINDERGARTEN. * Thirty-two Songs from Ronge’s Music, Borschitzky Myers & Co. Kindergarten Guide. 3/6 [Words in English and Grennan.] *New Kindergarten Songs, 2 Sheets. Music, Borschitzky Myers & Co. Nursery and Juvenile Songs set to Music. *Kindergarten Toys. -/6 ea. Book 1, containing 31 Songs for Infants. Book 2, ,, 40 ,, ,, Little Children. Book 3, ,, Songs for School Children. Box Complete, 12/6. May he had separately. See Myers & Co. ’s Catalogue. �42 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. Publisher. Author or Editor. TITLE. Price. SECTION III. for <ljxlbnn. , BIOGRAPHY. Bioqraphy of Self-Taught Men ... Nelson ...... 1/6 Book of Golden Deeds ................... Miss Yonge.......... Macmillan... Book of Golden Deeds, Abridged... Miss Yonge .......... Macmillan... 4/6 Clever Boys......................................... 1/- 1/- [Tales about Poiteau, the Botanist, Joseph Jacquard, &c., &c.] Moral Heroism ...................... . Mrs. Balfour.......... Houlston ... 3/6 [Account of Howard, Penn, &c.] Triumphs of Steam........................ [Watt, Arkwright, and Stephenson.] Griffith & Farran. True Hero, A.................................... W. H. G. Kingston s. s. u........ 3/6 2/6 [Life of William Penn.] VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, AND TALES ILLUSTRATING GEOGRAPHY. Ball I Live on, The .................. Boy Life on the Water.................... Author 1/6 Deeds of Naval Daring Murray...... 6/-: 3/6 Jarrold ...... 2/6 Macmillan... 6/- Chambers ... 1/- Cassell ...... 5/-. [Life in Holland.] ... Mrs. M. E. Dodge.. Low .......... 3/6 1/- “ Young Routledge... Marooners.” Boy’s Voyage Bound the World, A Samuel Smiles...... Murray...... ............... Edward Giffard ... England and her Forty Counties Mrs. Gel dart ...... Little Lucy’s Wonderful Globe ... Miss Yonge.......... Maritime Discovery and Adventure. Peeps Abroad for Folks at Home C. Mateaux.......... Silver Skates. �43 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. TITLE. Publisher. Price. Warne ...... 1/- Voyage of the Constance, The....... Mary Gillies.......... Low .......... 3/6 Winter Evenings. [Tales of Travels.] Maria Hack.......... Strahan...... 3/6 Author or Editor. VOYAGES, &c.—continued. Uncle John’s Excursions Travels. and HISTORY. Chronicles of an Old English Oak ; Emily Taylor ...... Groombridge 3/6 or, Sketches of English Life * and History. Glimpses of our Island Home....... Mrs. Geldart.......... Routledge... [Illustrative of Roman, British, and Saxon Times.] 2/- Stories from English History....... Henniker .............. Hogg.......... ' 1/[Simply-told Tales of Noble Deeds.] Stories from History of France ... ............................. S. P.O. K... Stories from History of Italy....... S. P.O. K... Stories from History of Spain ... ............................. S. P.O. K... Stories from History of Switzerland. 2/- ' 2/2/- S. P. C.K... 2/- Story of .Joan of Arc, The........... E. M. Evans.......... Bohn.......... Scenes from American History ... S. P. 0. K... 3/6 Tales and Stories from History ... A. Strickland ...... Longmans... 3/6 [Conversational Style.] [Written in Easy Language. Tales of A ncient Greece ............... G. W. Cox .......... Longmans... Tales of Kings and Queens of S. Percy .............. Routledge... England. 1/- 6/6 3/6 NATURE. Animals (Traits and Characteris- Rev. J. G. Wood... Routledge... tics of). " 3/6 [Illustrations.] Anecdotes in Natural History....... E. 0. Morris.......... Partridge ... D 2 5/---- - -- , �44 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. TITLE. Author or Editor. Publisher. Price. NATURE—continued. Bit of Bread, A ............................ Jean Mace .......... Bell & Daldy ‘ A- f f - - [Translated by Mrs. Gatty; 1st vol., Man, 4/6; 2nd vol., Animals, 3/6.] Boy’s Own Natural History, The... Bev. J. G. Wood .. Routledge... 3/6 [400 Illustrations.] British Butterflies......................... 3/6 a [Illustrated by Author.] British Butterflies (a Cheap Edi- Coleman .............. Routledge... 1/- tion). British Birds’ Eggs and Nests....... Atkinson .............. Routledge... 3/6 [Coloured Illustrations.] Birds and their Nests ................... Mary Howitt ...... Partridge ... 5/-, 7/6 [Illustrated.] Common Objects of the Country, Rev. J. G. Wood.... Routledge... The. [150 of the Colours.] 3/6 Objects ” printed in Common Objects of the Country Rev. J. G. Wood ... Routledge... 1/- (Cheap Edition). [In Fancy Boards, with Plain Plates.] Common Wayside Flowers ........ 10/6 [Coloured Plates, from Designs by Birket Koster.] Bogs and their Ways ................... Rev. Chas.Williams TJiOiitlcrlgp , 3/6 [Illustrated by numerous Anecdotes. Illustrated.] A Familiar History of Birds....... Stanley,late Bishop Longmans... 3/6 of jNorwich. Featherland .................................... G. M. Fenn.......... Griffith ...... 2/6,3/6 [A great Favourite.] Gardening for Children ............... Rev. B. A. Johns... S. P. C. K... 2/6 Glaucus; or, Wonders of the Shore Rev. O. Kingsley... Macmillan... Illustrated Natural History, An... Rev. J. G.Wood ... Routledge... 5/- [A Frontispiece and 47 Woodcuts.] 6/- [500 Illustrations by Harvey: 8 Plates by Wolf and Weir.] My Feathered Friends................... Rev. J. G. Wood ... [Descriptions and Anecdotes of various Birds.] Ron tied cm... 3/6 �45 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. TITLE. Author or Editor. Publisher. Price. Simpkin .. 2/6 NATURE—con tinued. Natural History in Stories.......... M. S. 0................ [Eight Illustrations by Harrison Weir Coloured, 3/6.] Our Four-footed Friends............... Mrs. Howitt...... . Partridge .. 5/-, 7/6 Our Domestic Pets ................. Rev. J. G. Wood .. Routledge ... 3/6 [Illustrations by Dalziel.j Pictures from Nature ................... Mary Howitt ...... Routledge... 4/6 [Illustrated.] Pictures from Nature ................... Mary Howitt ...... Routledge... ■ a/[A Packet of Twelve Illustrations in Colours.] Popular Natural History Young Readers. for Rev. <T. G. Wood ... Routledge... 12/6 [700 Illustrations.] Scientific Amusements................... Professor Pepper... Routledge... l/-,l/6 Sea and its Wonders, The ........... M. and E. Kirby... Nelson ...... 6/Sketches and Anecdotes of Animal Rev. J. G. Wood... Routledge... Life. 3/6 [Illustrated by Harrison Weir.J Sketches of Natural History ....... Mary Howitt ...... Bennett...... Snider Sninnina ..................... Routledge... 3/6 2/- [Natural History taught by a Spider : all the Incidents are Facts observed by Naturalists.] Strange Dwellings [Abridged from Hands.”] ........................ Rev. J. G. Wood ... Longmans... “ Homes 7/6 without Uncle Philip’s Conversations with Charles. Tegg .......... 4/6 Routledge... 2/- Wild Flowers, where to Find and Spencer Thomson.. Routledge... How to Know them. 2/6 [Wood Engravings — Tools and Trades of Inferior Animals.] A Visit to the Zoological Gardens [Very good.] [Cheap Edition, Plain Plates, 2/-.] World at Home, The........................ 1if. and E. Kirby... ' kelson ...... [A Companion Volume to “The Sea and its Wonders.”] ] 6/- x �46 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. TITLE. Author or Editor. Publisher. Price. POETRY. Birds and Flowers ........................ M. Howitt.............. Bennett...... Birds and Flowers ........................ M. Howitt.............. Nelson ...... [100 Illustrations. A beautiful Gift book.] 2/6 6/- 4 Lilliput Levee ................................ Strahan...... 2/6,5/- [Poems of Childhood.] Poet’s Hour, The ............................ Miss Martin.......... Macmillan... 2$ [Admirably Selected.] Poems for Young People............... Chambers ... 1/- Select Poetry for Children ........... Joseph Payne ...... Lockwood ... 2/6,3/[Extremely good.] Studies in English Poetry ........... Joseph Payne ...... Lockwood ... Tales in Verse for Young People.. M. Howitt.............. Chambers ... 5/1/6 FICTION. LEsop's Fables ................................ In Words of One Syllable, 1/- Cassell; edited by Garrett, 100 Illustrations, Strahorn, 2/6; edited by Croxall, 110 Illustrations, Warne, 5/-; edited by Townshend, illustrated by H. Weir, Boutledge, 5/-; illustrated by Griset, 7/6 (reduced from 21/-), Cassell. Alfred in India................................ 1/- A lice’s A dventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll ...... Macmillan... 6/- Andersen’s Tales, 1 vol..................... Routledge... 1/6 Archie Blake .................................... Mrs. Eiloart.......... Routledge... 2/- [Engravings.] [Story of a Brave Sailor Boy.] Aunt Emma .................................... Routledge... 1/6 Balderscourt; or, Holiday Tales... H. C. Adams ...... Routledge... 3/6 [Fairy Tales, Adventure, Historical and Dramatic Fiction.] Barford Bridge; Trials. Beechnut..................... or, Schoolboy H. C. Adams ...... Routledge... 3/6 Jacob Abbott ...... Routledge ... 1/- �47 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. Author or Editor. TITLE. Publisher. Price. FICTION—continued. Benjie of Millden ................ . ......... Dora Greenwell ... Strahan...... [Story of an Idiot Boy. form.] Bessie and Tom -/6 Pamphlet ........................... Routledge... 1/- Bill Marlin’s Tales of the Sea ... Mrs. Cupples ...... Hamilton ... Boy and the Birds, The............... .. Emily Taylor ...... A. Hall...... Boy Foresters, The........................... A. Bowman .......... Routledge ... 1/6 [Scene lies in America.] 2/6 3/6 [Days of Robin Hood.] Boy’s Adventures in the Wilds of William Howitt ... Routledge... Australia, A. Boys of Beechwood, The.................. Mrs. Eiloart.......... Routledge... 3/6 Boy’s Own Workshop, The............. Jacob Abbott ...... Nimmo...... Brave Boy, The ..................... Routledge... 1/6 [A good Oriental Tale. Hero, taken Prisoner by the Turks.] Bra,ve Bobby, and other Stories ... 3/6 1/- Warne ...... 1/- British Wolf Hunters ................... Thomas Miller...... Routledge ... 1/6 [A graphic picture Danish England.] of Saxon and ( Houlston ... c Warne ----- 1/6 1/6 1/7/6 2/6 Chamber Bramas (for Acting') ... Mrs. Geo. Macdon- Strahan----- 7/6 Casper ............................................... Miss Wetherell... 4 Nisbet ...... Cast Up by the Sea ........................ Sir S. W. Baker ... Macmillan... Griffith & Cat and Bog; or, Memoirs of Farran. Puss and the Captain. aid. Chance and Changes...................... B. A. Jourdain ... Strahan...... 5/- Charmed Roe, The........................... Otto Speckter...... Murray...... 5/- [Exquisite Illustrations. The Story al tered for the worse from the Original.] Cherry and Violet........................ . Cherry Stones, The Anne Manning...... Hall .......... 2/6,3/6 ...................... Rev. H. 0. Adams Routledge.... 2/'- Childhood of Mary Leeson............. 'Houlston ... 1/6 Bennett...... 3/6 ....... Miss Macintosh ... Routledge... 2/- Children’s Year, The................... Conquest and Self-Conquest M. Howitt...... ......... . �48 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. TITLE. Author or Editor. Publisher. Price. J.&C.Mozley 3/6 FICTION—continued. Countess Kate ..................... Miss Yonge .......... Cousins. The...................... Miss MTntosh...... Oris Fairlie’s Boyhood ............ Mrs. Eiloart.......... Crofton Boys, The ............................ H. Martineau ...... Routledge... : 1/- Warne ...... 5/- Routledge... 1/6 ............ 0. E. B.................. Seeley ...... Doctor’s Birthday, The .............. Rev. H. 0. Adams Routledge... 2/- Dick and his Donkey Early Lessons ........................... 1/- Miss Edgeworth ... Routledge ... ' 3/6 [Six Coloured Illustrations.] Edgeworth’s Box of Books for Little Boys and Girls. Routledge... 5/- [Containing 10 Sixpenny JuvenileBooks with Coloured Plates.] Emilie the Peacemaker ... Mrs. Geldart......... Routledge... 1/6 Ernie Elton at Home Mrs. Eiloart.......... Routledge... 2/- Mrs. Eiloart.......... Routledge... 2/- ...................... Aikin and Barbauld Simpkin ... ........ Aikin and Barbauld Routledge... 2/6 ........ Ernie at School.................. [A Sequel to “ Ernie Elton.”] Evenings at Home Evenings at Home 3/6 [Six Coloured Illustrations.] Every Little Boy’s Book.................. Routledge... 4/- ......................... Mrs. Craik.......... .. Macmillan... 4/6 [A Book of Games. 200 Illustrations.]: Fairy Book, The [The best popular Fairy Stories.] Falconhurst; or, Birthday Tales , H. C. Adams ...... Warne F°ats on the Fiord ............... H. Martineau ...... Routledge... Fireside Tales and Sketches ...... Chambers ... First of June, The ...................... Rev. H. 0. Adams.. Routledge... ; 2/- 1/6 2/6 2/- [A good Tale of Schoolboy Rivalry.] Franconia Stories: Agnes, 1 vol. Caroline, Jacob Abbott ...... Hodder & Stoughton. 3/6 Franconia Stories: . Caroline, Jacob Abbott ...... Jackson&Co. ea. 1/Agnes, Stuyvesant. Grimm ................. Hotten ...... 6/6,7/6 German Popular Stories ... [Illustrated by Cruikshank.] �49 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. TITLE. Author or Editor. Publisher. Price. FICTION—continued. Grateful Negro, The .................. Miss Edgeworth ... Routledge... -/« Great Fun Stories........................... Hood and Archer... Tiow ............. 6/10/6 Grey House on the Hill............ Hon. Mrs. Greene.. Nelson ...... 2/6 Happy Spring Time in Pictures.. MrS. C. Heaton ... Macmillan... 3/6 Hero, A...... .................... ..... Mrs. Craik .......... Routledge... 1/6 [Greek Fairy Tales.]... Rev. C. Kingsley... Macmillan... 4/6 Parley .................. Houlston ... Heroism of Boyhood................... Hope On, Hope Ever ........ ......... Mary Howitt ...... Tftcrcr ............. 3/6 How to Make the Best of It ...... A. Bowman........... Routledge... Instructive Stories for Young Mary Howitt.......... Cassell ...... People. 3/6 3/6 Jacopo, and other Tales ............... Chambers ... 1/- Jessica’s First Prayer .................. R. T. S........ 1/6 Johnny Jordan and his Dog......... Mrs. Eiloart.. John Oriel’s Start in Life........... Mary Howitt- Routledge... 3/6 Seeley ...... 1/- Jonas and his Farm...................... Jacob Abbott Cassell....... 1/- Keeper s Travels in Search of his Master. Griffith & Farran. 1/6 Heroes, The. 1/* [Orthodox, but beautiful.] Krilop and his Fables ...... •• Labor stands on Golden Feet Lamplighter, The Ralston.................. Strahan...... 5/-, 7/6 Heinrich Zschokke. Cassell....... Cummins 2/6 Routledge J l/-,l/6 2/-,2/6 Leila at Home ..................... A. F. Tytler Leila in England.................. A. F. Tytler Leila; or, the Island.-.......... A. F. Tytler Hatchard ... 3/6,6/- Lilian’s Golden Hours.................. Miss Meteyard Routledge... 5/- Little Duke, The . Macmillan... 2/6 Routledge... 2/- [The “ Leila ” Series are orthodox, but very beautiful.] Miss Yonge.... Hatchard ... 3/6,6/Hatchard ... 3/6,6/- [A great Favourite.] Little Lyehetts, The ................ . �50 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. TITLE. Author or Editor. Publisher. Price. FICTION—continued. Little Max ............ ............... Seeley [Etchings by Rudolph Geissler.] Little Meg’s Children .......... Little Men Au. of “ Jessica’s R. T. S. First Prayer.” Miss Alcott.......... Low 5/- 1/6 2/6,3/6 Little Merchants, The ................... Miss Edgeworth ... Routledge ... Little Plays for Little People........ Mrs. Chisholm...... Bell & Daldy 1/6 2/6 Little Robinson............................. Chambers ... Little Splendid’s Vacation......... Clara Fay Little Threads ................................ SundayS. S., Boston, U.S. Nisbet ....... 1/3/6 [Tangled Silver and Golden Threads.] Edmonston & Douglas. Little Trix; or, Grandmamma’s Lessons. 1/1/- 2/6,3/6 Low Little Women........................ Miss Alcott Little Woodman, The...................... Mrs. Sherwood ... Houlston .... 1/6,2/6 [Rather Large Type.] Lost Chamois Hunter, The......... Routledge ... Madeline ........................... Jacob Abbott Routledge ... Mary Bell.......................................... Jacob Abbott Routledge ... 1/- Mary Erskine ..................... Jacob Abbott Max Kromer....................... Au. of “ Jessica’s Wm. Hunt 1/6 1/- J/Magnet Stories, 8 vols..................... Planch e, Howitt, Groombridge ea. 2/6 Hall, &c. [Or in 20 vols., each 1/-.] Hatchard ... 3/6 Mary and Florence ....................... A. F. Tytler . Routledge ... A Story of the Siege of Strasburg. En graving.] First Prayer.’’ 1/- & Co. Mayflower, The ; or, Short Tales. Mrs. H. B. Stowe... Milner........ Routledge... Michael, the Miner.......................... R. T. S....... 1/6 2/-/6 Midsummer at Hay Lodge............. Ruth Buck Chambers ... 1/- Bennett... .. 2/6 [Eight Stories told by Uncle Paul to his Nieces.] Mr. Rudd’s Grandchildren........... Mary Howitt ... Mrs. Leicester’s School .................. Charles Lamb ... [Stories about Girls, told by them selves.] Griffith & l/-,l/6 Farran. �51 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. TITLE. Author or Editor. Publisher. Price. Cassell ...... 1/6 Moral Couraae ..................... My Uncle the Clockmaker .. M. Howitt .......... Tegg & Co... Oiled Feather, The.................. Rev. P. B. Power... Hamilton ... 1/-/6 FICTION—continued. Month at Ashfield Farm, A ... -/9 [Illustrated.] Old England........................... . . T. Miller .............. Chambers ... Old Saws New Set........................... Mrs. Mackarness... Routledge ... 1/3/6 On'a Coral Reef ; the Story of a Arthur Locker...... Cassell ...... Runaway Trip to Sea. Routledge... On the Seas ...................... 3/6 Orphans, The; and Old Poz....... Miss Edgeworth ... Routledge... -/6 Orphans of Malvern, The, and other Tales. Houlston .... 3/6 Our Cousins in Ohio...................... Mary Howitt ...... Bennett ..... 3/6 Routledge... 1/6 1/6 [Illustrated.] Owen Garstone . Parables from Nature.................... Mrs. Gatty .......... Bell & Daldy [Complete for 21/-, or 2 vols. 10/6; 1st Series, 1/6; 2nd Series, 2/-; 1st and 2nd Series, 1vol., 3/6; 3rd Series, 2/-; 4th Series, 3/-; 3rd and 4th Se ries, 1 vol., 4/-; 5th Series, 2/-.] Parents and Children ............. Madame de Witt... Nelson ....... [Ten Stories.] Parent's Assistant ; or, Stories Miss Edge worth ... Simpkin .... for Children Peasant and the Prince, The ....... H. Martineau ...... Routledge... Peggy, and other Tales.................. Au. of “ A Very Cassell ...... [Highly recommended.] 3/6 1/6 3/6 Simple Story.” Pilgrim Street .......................... . Au. of “ Jessica’s R. T. S. ... Eirst Prayer.” Poet's Children, The........................ Mary Howitt ...... A.W.Bennet Rab and his Friends ................... Dr; John Brown ... Hamilton ... Warne ...... Robert Dawson; or, The Brave Spirit. [Rather orthodox, but very good.] 2/- 1/6 2/6 3/6 1/- �52 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. TITLE. Author or Editor. Publisher. Price. FICTION—continued. RobimSon Crusoe ............................ Daniel Defoe ....... Chambers ... Robinson Crusoe ............................ Daniel Defoe ....... Routledge... 1/63 3/6 [Illustrated.] Robinson Crusoe ............................ Daniel Defoe ....... Macmillan .. 4/6 [“ Golden Treasury Series.”] Robinson Crusoe ............................ Daniel Defoe......... Cassell ...... [ Illustrated.] Robinson Crusoe ............................ Daniel Defoe ........ Routledge... 5/* 21/- [Handsomely Bound and Illustrated.] Rock Light, The; or, Duty our Eleanora L. Hervey Warne ...... Watchword. 2/- Rollo at School ........................ Jacob Abbott ...... Hodson&Son ! 1/6 Rollo’s Vacation ............................ Jacob Abbott ...... Hodson&Son 1/6 Rollo learning to Talk................... Jacob Abbott ...... Hodson&Son 1/6 Rollo at Play............... '............ Jacob Abbott ...... Low .......... 1/6 Rosa ................................................. Mme. Pressense ... Routledge... 2/* Runaway, The ......................... ...... Au. of “ Mrs. Jer- Macmillan .. ningbam’s Journal.” Sandford and Merton................... Thomas Day ........ Simpkin..... [Longmans, I/-; Routledge, 1/6, 2/-, 3/6; Bohn, 2/6; Warne, 1/-, 2/-; Hogg, 3/6.] Schoolboy Honour..................... Rev. H. C. Adams.. Routledge ... 4/6 Chambers ... Self-Denial........................................ Settlers at Home ............................ H. Martineau ...... Routledge... Simple Susan .... ................... Miss Edgeworth... Routledge ... 1/- -/6 Slavonic Fairv Tales .................... King & Co... 5/- Sleepy Forest, and other Stories... E. R. Conder ...... Isbister...... 3/6 Silvio Pellico, Imprisonment of Chambers ... 1/- Steadfast Gabriel, The ............... Chambers ... 1/- Stories in Precious Stones ........... Helen Zimmern ... King & Co... 5/- Story without an End, The........... Tr. Mrs. Austin ... Sunshine at Last............................ B. A. Jourdain...... Whitfield ... 7/6 TV a a.ke ......................... 1/6 3/6 1/6 2/- �53 BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS. TITLE. Author or Editor. Publ isher. Price. 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Criticism Literature https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/25778/archive/files/510cfeabffacef50e621f9816236b6c7.pdf?Expires=1784764800&Signature=ovvxmCe5adSE5reIuwhRIvv3oDBB8DU6uodHKFDuA18PAJhFWfqMrAwvqIBUl6BXwuWrkR8sXe-yhr-fLhrJtqUaIA25zri11bZYEEKwOsFdBa1eLK%7El-Ieukb4eOFR8vN%7EqA8%7EdhX8YPEky1ueOoqx0B-iVyw3vsD0MHoaIDO-WbO7KrYAlXvIpNNRR78BNUKnqqDGdFNUb%7EN7kWlDtks4S5m10901wECH-6eMVY1NRX6VagQ%7Eab2XP865F1eJplEFMK30Nt0k1Z0NUX-NF9j30Wklt-k-R6rE8KLdv5iGJO0buDkb4sE1CrVB0jbsQBZQOfw2AG6w9Bs548GgQig__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 05d91e0b5cf525fb6e51d523fbc98557 PDF Text Text 1872.] ELLE ET LUT. “Shall we reach the New York pier at the foot of Canal street by Saturday noon?’’ If we do, there is for us all long life, prosperity and happiness : if we do not, it is desolation and misery. For Monday is New Year’s Day. On Sunday we may not be able to leave the city: to be forced to stay in New York over Sunday is a dreadful thought for solitary contemplation. We study and turn it over in our minds for hours as we pace the deck. We live over and over again the land-journey to our hearthstones at Boston, Syracuse and Cincinnati. We meet in thought our long-expectant relatives, so that at last our air-castles become stale and mo notonous, and we fear that the reality may be robbed of half its anticipated pleasure from being so often lived over in imagination. Nine o’clock, Friday evening. The excitement increases. Barnegat Light is in sight. Half the cabin passengers are up all night, indulging in unprofit able talk and weariness, merely because we are so near home. Four o’clock, and the faithful engine stops, the cable rattles overboard, and everything is still. We are at anchor off Staten Island. By the first laggard streak of winter’s dawn I am on the hurricane-deck. I am curi ous to see my native North. It comes by degrees out of the cold blue fog on either side of the bay. Miles of houses, GJ 451 spotted with patches of bushy-looking woodland—bushy in appearance to a Californian, whose oaks grow large and widely apart from each other, as in an English park. There comes a shrieking and groaning and bellowing of steam whistles from the monster city nine miles away. Soon we weigh anchor and move up toward it. Tugs dart fiercely about, or laboriously puff with heavily-laden vessels in tow. Stately ocean steamers surge past, outward bound. We become a mere fragment of the mass of floating life. We near the foot of Canal street. There is a great deal of shouting and bawling and counter-shouting and coun ter-bawling, with expectant faces on the wharf, and recognitions from shore to steamer and from steamer to shore. The young woman who flirted so ardently with the young Californian turns out to be married, and that business-looking, middle-aged man on the pier is her hus band. Well, I never! Why, you are slow, my friend, says inward reflection. You must recollect you have been nearly out of the world these seventeen years. At last the gangway plank is flung out. We walk on shore. The little floating world society, cemented by a month’s association, scatters like the fragments of an exploding bombshell, and Gotham swallows us up for ever from each other’s sight. Prentice Mulford. ELLE ET LUI. ICTURE to yourself a salon of 1833, P one of those famous gatherings of the beauty, the fashion, the genius of Paris that glorified the Sunday evenings at the Arsenal. , Poets and painters chat ted together in the quiet corners ; La martine and Sainte-Beuve, Alfred de Vigny and Victor Hugo, with the other young journalists who had been setting the Seine on fire with their revolutionary notions in literature as well as politics, might be seen like wandering comets threading the mazes of the revolving crowd: Chateaubriand and De Balzac were there to represent sentimentalism and realism, while M. Beyle (Stendhal) was gathering materials for his caustic critiques. His mission was to put down vanity, and he seemed to be looking for it in every one he met, that he might �452 ELLE ET LUI. immediately attack it. “But I do not think he was malicious,” said one of his lady friends : “he gave himself too much trouble to appear so !” Among all the brilliant crowd no one attracted more attention than a young man about twenty-three years of age, slender, not very tall, and dressed with extreme fastidiousness. His abundant curls of light hair were most carefully arranged to set off his well-shaped head, and his dark whiskers and almost black eyes gave vigor and force to his physiog nomy. The Grecian outline of his nose and the noble arch of his forehead in creased his air of high-bred distinction, still further heightened by the fire of ge nius which lit up his expressive face. It was the Byron of France, as his contem poraries loved to call him; the poet of youth, as he called himself, of whom Heine said that at thirty he was a man with a splendid past, and whom SainteBeuve painted with one of his delicately felicitous touches as “Cherubino at a masked ball, playing the part of Don Giovannithe petted prodigal of Paris ; the best-loved man in life, the best-loved poet after death,—the brilliant Alfred de Musset. Like Victor Hugo, he began to write for the public at eighteen, and found himself famous after the publica tion of his Contes d'Espagne, when he was but twenty. On first leaving col lege the versatility that is often a cha racteristic of genius led him, like a willo’-the-wisp, into many false ways. He studied law, medicine, painting, and even spent a short novitiate in a bank ing-house. Then the writers of the Globe got hold of him—Lamartine, Vic tor Hugo, De Vigny, Sainte-Beuve—and enlisted him in their eager and hot headed ranks. It was under their stimu lating influence that he wrote the Contes d'Espagne, and from that moment his fortune as a writer was assured. His life was like that of some lush young plant forced into premature luxuriance and bloom in the torrid atmosphere of a hot-house, wasting its sap in one splen did burst of beauty, to wither before it has time to keep the promise of its youth. Taine compares him to a blood-horse [Apr. dashing across country, stimulated by the odors of the flowers and the mag nificent novelty of the vast sky to frantic efforts which destroy everything before him, and will soon destroy himself. “ He asked too much of things,” says this acute critic : “he wanted to drain life in one fierce and eager draught; he would not gather, would not taste its grapes, but tore them away in one cluster, bruised, pressed and wrenched them off, and was left with stained hands and a thirst as ardent as ever. Thence those sobs, echoed by all hearts. What! so young and already so weary ! So many precious gifts—an intellect so fine, a tact so delicate, a fancy so mobile and so rich, a flame so precocious, so sudden a blos soming of beauty and of genius, and at the same instant anguish, disgust, cries and tears ! What a medley ! With the same gesture he adores and he curses. The eternal illusion, the invincible expe rience, are side by side in his soul to struggle, and to rend it. He has grown old, and he is still young: he is a poet, and he is a skeptic. The Muse and her tranquil beauty, Nature and her immor tal freshness, Love and its happy smile, —all the crowd of divine visions has scarcely passed before his eyes when we see hurrying up, amid sarcasms' and curses, all the spectres of debauchery and death. Like a man in the midst of a feast who drinks from a chiseled gob let, standing in the foremost place, amid applause and the blare of trumpets, with laughing eyes and joyful heart, warmed and quickened by the generous wine which courses through his veins, and whom all at once we see turn pale: there is poison in the bottom of the cup ; he falls with the death-rattle in his throat; his feet beat convulsively upon the silken carpets, and all the feasters watch him with terrified eyes. This is what we felt the day when the best-loved, the most brilliant among us, suddenly shivered at an unseen blow, and sank down with a death-groan among the lying gayety and splendor of our banquet. “Ah well! such as he was, we love him always; we can listen to no other; all beside him seem cold or false. . . , �1872.] ELLE ET 'LUI. He was not a simple dilettante, he was not content to taste and to enjoy : he has left his mark upon human thought. He has suffered, but he has invented : he has fainted by the way, but he has produced.” To all the charms of this striking ge nius and beauty were added the fascina tions of his conversation, as full of mar velous variety as his writings. He would pass from some delicate fancy or some profound thought into a mood of fierce and bitter irony, to suddenly dispel the gloom he had himself evoked by a burst of childlike gayety. There was no resist ing the impetuosity of his spirits—he carried everything before him. “ He had all the characteristics of the lover,” says Madame Colet—‘‘an imagination always on the alert; a child’s careless ness of facts and of fleeting time; a mockery of fame, an indifference to opinion, and an absolute oblivion of everything which was not the desire of the moment.” These last few words are peculiarly significant. If the theory be true that we carry always within us the latent, germ of disease that will one day cause our death, more especially was it true of De Musset that he bore within his own breast the elements of his destruction. He seemed to be absolutely destitute of principle—the slave of every impulse, the victim of his ardent and headlong temperament, the prey of every moment ary passion that seized upon his inflam mable heart. Add to this his utter inca pacity for seeing anything but the desire of the instant, and what a fatal tempera ment we have to launch upon the treach erous waters of Parisian life ! But with all his weakness he had the soul of a great poet. He never lost the consciousness of the ideal life, love, poetry, that he was for ever betraying, for ever defiling, and yet for ever seek ing. It was as though that Ideal, an attendant genius, walked ever by his side, and when, in the midst of the riotous revelry, the calm eyes met his, the wine cup fell from his hand and the apples of delight turned to bitter ashes upon his lips. His life was a succession of brilliant achievements, unbridled indul 453 gence, and sudden revulsions of self contempt and disgust. “Suspended be tween the heavens and the earth,” said one who knew him well, “longing for the one, curious about the other, disdaining glory, appalled at the universal empti ness, uncertain, tormented, changeable, he lived alone in the midst of men, flee ing from solitude, and yet finding it everywhere. The power of his own soul fatigued him. His thoughts were too vast, his desires too immense : his feeble shoulders bent beneath the burden of his genius. He sought among the imperfect pleasures of the earth the ob livion of that unattainable good which he had seen from afar.” Among the brilliant crowd that our poet met at the Arsenal that evening was a woman of about twenty-nine, chiefly noticeable among the brighter and younger beauties for the splendor of her dark eyes and the grace of her perfect hand. Below the smooth bands of thick black hair which swept across her forehead and fell in two short curls upon her neck, those eyes seemed to burn with an inner fire which lit up all the face. The rest was plain enough, but such was the fascination of that face that many were known to speak of it as the most beautiful they had ever seen. It was the face of Aurora, Madame Dudevant, best known to that circle of beaux esprits as George Sand, the auda cious writer of Indiana and Lelia. “ Happy are the women who have no histories 1” some one says. But Aurora had a history. She had spent a singular childhood among the country scenes and country children of Nohant, getting up miniature battles which left the nursery strewn with fragments of dismembered dolls, organizing societies of little peas ants to snare the birds in winter, erecting flower-strewn altars in some mossy cave to a strange and entirely original fetish, weaving romances by the hour together before she could even put pen to paper. Always the busy brain, the sensitive heart, the inflexible will. As she grew older the continual bickerings between mother and grandmother grew to be in tolerable, their incessant jealousy made �454 ELLE ET LUI. her life miserable, and she was thankful to take refuge from this persecuting af fection in the Couvent des Anglaises at Paris. Here she went through all the phases common to the convent of the period, from diable to devote. By the time she was seventeen, domestic dis sensions, severe study, physical and mental weariness had so worn upon her precociously-excited brain that she tried to drown herself, but was happily un successful. The mania for suicide that possessed her at this time was in part inherited, and though her attempt at the ford had cured her of a desire for a wa tery death, she found herself attracted by an almost irresistible longing to pis tols and to poisons. At last, with rest and better health, the mania gradually pass ed away. At eighteen she was married to a man for whom she always professed a tranquil esteem and friendship, but whose temperament was entirely uncon genial, and in a few years she was living in Paris again with her two children, supporting herself by painting portraits, by ornamenting snuff-boxes with minia ture groups of flowers, and by her pen, going about in the costume of a young student to save the numberless little ex penses of a woman’s dress, and living in a garret upon scanty means enough. Whatever we may think of her theories of life and of marriage, we cannot but ad mire her sincerity and her heroism ; and when we read the sad words which she has set down in her Lettres d'ztn Voyagetir, we can better appreciate the hard and dreary nature of that life which too many of us have been apt to consider one of reckless freedom. “Launched upon a fatal career,” she writes, “guilty neither of cupidity nor of extravagant desires, but the prey of unforeseen reverses, burdened with the care of dear and precious existences, of whom I was the only support, I have never been an artist, although I have felt all the fatigues, all the excitement, all the ardor and all the sufferings be longing to that sacred profession : true glory has not crowned my labors, be cause I have rarely been able to wait for inspiration. Hurried, obliged to earn [Apr. money, I have driven my imagination to work without troubling myself about the co-operation of my reason ; I have forced my Muse when she has refused to yield; she has revenged herself by cold caresses and sombre revelations. It is the want of bread which has made me morbid: it is the grief of having to force myself to an intellectual suicide which has made me bitter and skeptical.’ ’ There is but one thing that can add to the sadness of this revelation: it is, that this is the history not of one woman, but of hundreds of women all over the world. It was while she was leading this toil some and precarious life that she met Alfred de Musset. At first attracted only by the curiosity of a poet, he was soon seized by one of those irresistible pas sions that were perpetually swaying his restless soul, and in a few days they were inseparable. There is a special, though involuntary, attraction to a poet in a woman of genius, says Madame Colet in her book called Lui. “ But with such women the inevitable lovers’ quarrels are multiplied: they spring from every contact of two beings of equal worth, but whose sensations and aspira tions may be nevertheless very diverse. In such a union the joys are extreme, but so are the sufferings.” It is all very well in a moment of happiness to be able to exalt the woman one loves as wiser and stronger than any of her sex, but when it comes to a dispute, to feel that that superior intelligence is calm ly reading your own, is analyzing your character and taking stock of your weak nesses, is a terrible contingency at which masculine pride naturally shudders. Such a case brings up one of the strong est arguments for the theory of “ counter parts ” in marriage. Some one declares it to be fatal for a wife to excel in her husband’s favorite pursuit. If he be a musician, the less she knows about music, except to have a sympathetic love for it, the better. To be able to criticise her husband’s performances with a knowledge equal—nay, perhaps superior—to his own, would be risking their wedded happiness. And to place �1872.] ELLE ET LUI. side by side in the harness of matrimony two of the irritabile genus is indeed rather a dangerous experiment. The extreme sensitiveness to every impres sion which causes the aeolian harp to vibrate with a breath brings forth dis cords as easily as harmonies, and the heart of an artist (whether he be poet, painter or musician) is but a human harp. Every touch sets the' strings quivering — impossible but that they should sometimes jangle. And when we think of two of these susceptible natures acting and reacting on each other, with all the little circumstances of our daily lives, which float by a phleg matic temperament unheeded, the source to them of immense delight or misery, it is a wonder not that there are so many unhappy marriages in the artistic world, but that any are successful. In the case we are considering at present there were not only the ordinary difficulties to be encountered, but there were radical differences of character, which could not fail, sooner or later, to produce dissension. Alfred de Musset was, as we have seen, a type of the purely artistic organization intensified by the French element of race. It was im possible for him to conceive of existence except in the present tense—to see any thing beyond the now and here. The idea of duty was wanting in his con sciousness. Like a man born color blind, to whom red and black are the same, he realized no difference between I will and I ought. He was a perfect embodiment of the old poetic represen tation of Genius as an immortal child. He writes of himself: My first verses were a little child’s ; My second still a youth’s ; The last were scarcely to be called a man’s. With this lack of moral strength he united all the attractive qualities of child hood— its irresistible gayety, its spon taneous generosity, its unceasing verve and enthusiasm, its rapid joys and sor rows, its endless capacity for pleasure, its insatiable appetite for novelty, its helpless appeal to strength and wisdom, its quick recognition of both. He was like the children who go to seek the pot 455 of gold at the end of the rainbow, and who find that the end of the rainbow always overhangs some dangerous mo rass. He was always seeking the ideal at the other end of the rainbow of his fancy, and much mire he traversed in pursuit of it. No wonder that when he met with a woman of genius, of great talents and of lofty aspirations, with clean hands and a pure heart, he should throw himself headlong at her feet, and think he had found rest for his soul at last. But Aurora, in spite of her earnest and devoted affection for him, in spite of her thorough appreciation of his genius, was not the counterpart he sought. She was attuned to a different key. While he was particularly individual, positive, determined, she seemed an incarnation of pure intellect, cold, judicial and gen eral. Contrary to the usual feminine type, her sympathies were more with the race than with the individual, more abstract than concrete. Universal Na ture appealed to her profoundly : hence the superb landscape painting we find in her books, the fine sketches of storm and sunshine. Her novels are usually the embodiment of some abstract idea—her dramatis personae are charged with the duty of working it out in the course of their conversations. The women in her books are almost always the incarnation of part of herself: they are made of a portion of her own heart, as Eve was taken from Adam’s side. They repre sent not her complete personality, it is true, but certain of her own attributes or mental conditions, rarely a separate idiosyncrasy. They are given to long and sometimes rather prosy harangues, even atpic-nics and on other inauspicious occasions, to much moralizing, and to lengthy discussions of the utopias of the day. They have something too much usually of “the reason firm, the temper ate will,’’ and lack that gracious caprice which goes a long way to make up the fascination of the ewige weiblichkeit. Their pride as reasonable beings forbids them to act from mere impulse, and their capitulation, however sudden it may seem, is the result of a long siege of silent argument. Like the goddesses �456 ELLE ET LUL of old, they envelop themselves in the clouds before they descend to their adorers. In fact, the central point of Aurora’s character was precisely that which was wanting in De Musset—moral principle, unflinching devotion to duty. It may seem strange to assert this of a woman who in many ways has overstepped the boundary-lines which we should draw to define right living, and whose books have been so often regarded with holy horror. But we venture to assert that no one can study her character or read her works with calm, unbiased judgment without deciding that in all things she has acted up to her highest idea of duty, that in her life and in her books she may have made mistakes—as who of us has not ?—but that they have been errors of judgment, not sins against conscience. Duty was ever her first and last consid eration. To endeavor to unite two such cha racters in a lasting attachment was like trying to yoke together fire and water. We can fancy the struggles of the wide ly-differing organizations — the one, a calm, clear intelligence, self-poised and independent, seeing clearly the ante cedents and the consequences of every act, earnest, devoted, unflinching, reso lute, but stern, unyielding, and devoid of that exquisite sensibility to the moods of another which alone could satisfy the exactions of the singular organization with which it was brought in contact; the other eager, impetuous, ardent, un disciplined, full of good impulses and great ideas, but a weathercock swayed by every wind of passion, the slave of an untrained genius and an ungoverned heart. The one weary of never-ceas ing efforts to chasten and reform this unruly spirit, her endless devotion met with ingratitude and scorn, her kindness misinterpreted, her affection rejected, her instant submission to the whim of the moment imperiously demanded; the other, conscious of dashing like a wave upon an unyielding rock, ever running against that unflinching sense of duty, ever repulsed by the cold upbraidings of the preacher when longing [Apr. for the tender sympathy of love. Par don was to be had, indeed, for all sins, but it was to be earned first. Love was to be relegated to its appropriate place among the pleasures of life, and to come in after the labor of the day, like the sugar-plums of a dessert. Work was work, and not a sentiment, not an emo tion was to be allowed to escape till it was ovèr. Then the Loves and the Graces were bidden to the banquet, and then the Loves and the Graces very nat urally would not always come. Affec tion was not the golden thread upon which all the hours of life were to be strung, but the heart-shaped bead at one end of the necklace. This measured rule, this heart trained to beat in time to the music of labor, was hardly to be un derstood by our poet. Aurora’s was one of those natures to whom great sacrifices are .a delight, but petty ones a fetter and an impossibility. She was capable of watching by a poet’s sick-bed for three sleepless weeks, but she could not see the need of giving him an hour of sym pathy and comfort out of the time she had set aside for work. He, on the con trary, was equal to anything that was outside of the realm of law and order. He reveled in the unexpected, and de tested the preordained from the bottom of his heart. It needed not only infinite charity, but infinite tact, to guide this rudderless nature through the perils of its storm-tossed way. And that tact, born only of keen perception and the most delicate sympathy, Aurora seemed to lack. Walking through life with her eyes steadily fixed upon the pole-star of her purpose, she trampled every ob stacle beneath her feet, and she expect ed the same fortitude and endurance from all who accompanied her. If they could not keep up with her, let them fall behind : she could not alter her course to save the bleeding feet or to comfort the weary spirits. That she was sometimes aware of this failure to make allowance for others we see in an occasional pas sage in her history of her life ; such as this, for example: “The seal of true greatness is never to exact from others the hard things it imposes upon itself.’’ �1872.] ELLE ET LUI. And being the servant of her reason, that reason, like all servants, sometimes played her false. It led her to reduce life top much to a set of philosophical axioms, and to expect of human nature the regularity of the heavenly bodies. She made no allowance for perturba tions, but expected the hearts of her friends to revolve in their constant and changeless orbits around their central sun. That overruling reason, too, was constantly tempting her to dissect what she should have been content to enjoy, to analyze what it was enough to feel. She was in this akin to Margaret Fuller, of whom Lowell writes : And yet, O subtle analyst, That canst each property detect Of mood or grain, that canst untwist Each tangled skein of intellect, And with thy scalpel eyes lay bare Each mental nerve more fine than air! O brain exact, that in thy scales Canst weigh the sun and never err ! For once thy patient science fails, One problem still defies thy art: Thou never canst compute for her The distance and diameter Of any simple human heart. We can easily foresee the fate of such a connection — contentions, struggles, misery and final rupture. One shade less of philosophy, one ray more of com passionate love, one touch of that divine sympathy which has been called the genius of the heart, and the Aurora which shone upon the poet’s waking might have broadened for him into the perfect day. But it was not to be. It needs all the remembrance of that sad confession we have already quoted to enable us to pardon the sad ending of the story. “ It is the want of bread which has made me morbid,” she says : ‘‘it is the grief of having to force myself to an intellectual suicide which has made me bitter and skeptical.” But we cannot help feeling how far the head must have got the better of the heart, how far the peculiarly French fondness for morbid study of emotion must have triumphed over the delicacy of the woman, when we find her anatomizing her old love in her famous novel called Elie et Lui, dis secting the character of the dead poet 457 who had thrown himself, heart and soul, at her feet, for the amusement of a curi ous world, eager to know the particulars of their relations to each other. Paul de Musset, outraged through all his fiery nature by what he deemed an insult to his brother’s memory, retaliated in a fierce and bitter sketch called Lui et Elie, and this again was followed by a more impartial statement, though still in defence of the poet, by Madame Colet, called Lui. Any one of the books is dreary in the extreme. To watch the wrecking of a noble ship can never be a cheering or a helpful spectacle, and to see two great souls, the one drifting to destruction, the other powerless to aid what it so longed to save, but only has tening the end, is the saddest sight that can be seen by mortal eyes. Except in the interests of mental anatomy, the three books had better never have been written, except perhaps it be Madame Colet’s, for the sake of the charity it inspires us with toward the Byron of French poetry. It has much merit also in the fine thoughts and keen reflections that go far to justify its existence. The impartial critic can hardly help noting how impossible it is, with all the help of special pleading on either side, quite to disguise the truth as concerns the history of these two natures. Their characteristics were so salient, so un mistakable, the differences in their or ganization so patent, that no history of infinite exaction on the one side, of in finite sacrifice on the other, can quite blind us to the real state of the case. We shut the volumes with a sigh, and it is Madame Colet, after all, who teaches us the great lesson of charity. “To those who have no visible superiority,” she says, “are readily ascribed concealed treasures, while even every-day virtues are refused to those exceptional beings endowed with rarer gifts. . . . 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Masseur, ' ° >1?'s ' ; ‘ 'j , Z* .m-dr<nil .- Mon onele Cotonnet. esimori il y a un an environ melaissaaA s® maison de la grand’place, sa ferine de Saint-Florent, son moulin des. Epives, en tout dix ou douze mille livres de rente pLus. que. suffisantes pour un homrne de gouts simples comme moi, et bien decide a tester celibataire. AL. Dupuis x decede quelque chose. comme six- moisavant son ami, m’a. legue. sa biblietheque fort riche: ef fort, belle,, c® qui me permet de me livrer a rnon gout pour la litterature. , x Ce: gout me vient de famill'e, iL est.dans mon. sang ;Jes Cotonnet ai-ment les lettres de; pere. en fils., Nous, avons en uu Cotonnet, eouroime? par l’Academie des jeux floraux, deux ans avant la revolution; mats, let plus celebre. des Cotonnet est sans confredit mon oncle Jeromes;' Cotonnet, qui publia avec son ami Dupuis Ite&Lettres sttr/a titteraiw& qui firent quelque bruit en leur temps. Jet me flatte qu’en w lisant, vous avez reconnu son style qui est celui da la famille.. Jusqu’a leuF dernier moment, Dupuiset.Cotonn.etse sont occupes des. plus grosses questions litteraires. Ils cherchaienf a decider la ques tion du realisme lorsqu’ils. sent morts.. 11 me semide encore entendre les deux amis discuter a ee sujet sur le mail; ce sont eux. qui m’onL forme 1’esprit et le gout, et j’ose croire que je ne suis pas sansjairer quelque honneur a mes maitres. On afort remarque mon discours au dernier comice agricole sur l’alliance de l’agriculture et des beaux-arts.. Il a ete imprime dans le journal de l’arrondissement. Nul doute que le prochain fauteuil vacant dans notre academie ne fut, pour moi, si �1« ■ L’ANNfiE LITTfiRAIRE, consentais aux demarches necessaires; mais je ne tiens pas aux hoh-1 neurs, je pretends garder mon independance et avoir sur toutes chUseSj mon franc parler. G’est pourquoi il m’a pris fantaisie de vous ecrire de temps en temps. Vous ferez de mes lettres ce qu’il vous semblera bon; ne vous gencz point pour les jeter au panier si elles vous deplai-z sent; je n’y tiens pas autrement. J’en serai quitte pour avoir gate quelques feuilles de papier. Je commencerai, monsieur, par vous dire quelques mots sur les theatres. Je les ai presque tons vus pendant mon dernier sejour a Paris, en commencant parle Theatre-Francais ou j’ai assiste a la re prise de Rodogune pour les debuts de madame Guyon. J’avais dix-huit ans, lorsque mon oncle me mena avec lui a Paris pour la premiere fois; les trains de plaisir n’etaient pas inventts, nous mimes un jour entier pour faire le trajet de la Ferte-sous-Jouarre* a la barriere Saint-Martin. M. Dupuis etait du voyage; il s’agissaifl d’assister a la premiere representation d’un drame en cinq actes et en vers de M. Casimir Delavigne, intitule la Jeunesse du Cid. Cette piece se jouaitaun theatre qui s’appelait, si je m’en souviens bien, le theatre de la Renaissannce. Il faut vous dire, monsieur, que mon oncle et son ami Dupuis avaient pour Casimir Delavigne un faible que je ne partageais pas. Pour ne vous rien cacher, j’etais un romantique enrage a cette epoque. Mon oncle ne l’a jamais su, il m’aurait peut-etre desherite. Malgre mon romantisme, la piece de Casimir Delavigne ne me deplut pas trop. Le principal role etait joue par une> jeune et belle debutante J nominee Lmilie Guyon. Il y a bien quelque chose comme vingt ans de cela, ce qui ne nous raj eunit pas. Un souvenir agreable m’etail reste de cette actrice, et je 1’ai revue avec le plus grand plaisir. Elie a un peu change, comme vous pensez bien, mais elle est arrivee a point ou l’on peut jouer, sans faire crier, les reines de tragedie. L’age rend les gens plus traitables, je suis infmiment moins ennemi de la tragedie qu’autrefois. C’est un genre majestueux et eleve qui a bien son charme. Seulement, je trouve que la tragedie ne souffre pas la mediocrite; a moins qu’une tragedie ne soit parfaite, n’en parions point. C ’ etait *aussi l’avis de mon oncle; pour Dupuis, il etait plus indulgent, et il poussait volontiers Cotonnet sur sa preference pour Racine. — Corneille, disait Dupuis, est un poete moraliste, il cherche constamment a elever l’homme; il est sublime. �CHAPITRE V. — Sans doute, repondait Cotonnet; pourtant que d’emphase et de mauvais gout a cote de ce sublime. Rien n’est plus dangereux que ’amour du sublime; c’est par la que le gout finit par se corrompre. [Certes, le Qu’il mourut est une belle chose, le Romain parle par la bouche du vieil' Horace; mais pourquoi ne pas vouloir entendre le vers suivant dans lequel le pere prend la parole a son tour? CorI neille, malgre tout son genie, n’est pas mon homtne; il a contribue a eloigner les esprits du nature! du simple. Que d||choses on voudrait retrancher de ses ouvrages! Chez Racine,'wcontraire, tout est excellent, rien de ce qui est en lui n’est mauvais; c’est ce qui n’y est pas qu’on regrette. Je partage entierement T opinion de mofi oncle, ’je-suis pour le par fait eii tout. Il faut convenir, monsieur,’ que Rodogune n’est pas, a I beaucoup pres, la plus parfaite des tragedies de Corneille, quoiqu’il la mit fort au-dessus du Cid, de Cinna et des Hordes. C’etait, nous dit-il lui-meme, son oeuvre de predilection; On sait qu’il ne faut pas [chicaner un auteur la-dessus. Pourmoi, je h’aime pas les sujets puises dans l’histoire sanglante d'e cet Orient fabuleux ou Ton ne voit que des monstres. Corneille a choisi le plusaffreux de tous dans cette 'Cleopatre qui tue un de ses fils a conpshfe fleshes, et qui empoisonne l’autre. « Au reste, si quelqu’urla la curiosite de voir' cette histoire plus au long, qu’il prenne la peine de lire Justin, qui la commence au trente-sixieme livre, et, l’ayant quitlee/la reprend sur la fin du Itrente-huitieme, et l’acheve au trentc-neuvieme.» Je crois que peu de gens seront tentes de profiter de cesKridications du bon Corneille. V Apres avoir parle de la preference de 1’auteur pour- Rodogune, La Harpe ajoute : « Si les quatre premiers actes repondaient au dernier, il n’y aurait pas a balancer, tout le'monde serait de son avis. » Tout le monde, excepte moi. Ce cinquieme acte ne me parait guere moins Imaussade que les autres^ sans dbute/chmme on tduche a la cata strophe, l’interet parait plus grand, voila tout. ‘ << Cleopatre avalant plle-meme le poison prepare pour son fils et pour Rodogune, et se flattant meme de vivre assez longtemps potlr les voir perir avec elle, fprme un denoument admirable. Il faut bien qu’il le soit, puisqu’il a fp.it pardonner les etranges invraisemblances sur lesquelles il est fonde et qui ne peuvent pas avoir d’autre excuse. » Je suis beaucoup plus severe que La Harpe; il m’est impossible de pardonner les inj Vraisemblances qui remplissent d’un bout a l’autre ce cinquieme acte. [ Jouez des tragedies parfaites, ou n’en jouez pas du tout. Tome III. — 9e Livraison. 10 �U6 IZANN-fiB LITTSRAIRE. En meme temps que Rodogune. du grand Corneille on> donnait une Gomedie de M>.. Ernest Legouve Pur droit de aonqi^te^. Madame Guyon „ quittant. la. pourpre et le diademe, remplissait. dan&eetth comodienurbledeuiche paysanne^En ecoutanteette piecesou;Hau teur se propose dafaire la: guerre.a g& prejuge.qui met oBstante-a-des alliaiicesmatidniomales cntrele&nohles.ellestroturiers, je medemanr dais s’il* n’y auraii. point par hasard des prejuges plus dangerous et plus, reels, centre: lesqpels. la. comedie* pourraiit s’escrimer. L.’orgueil aristoeralique u-’existe reellementpas aujourd’hula l’etat de prejuge^ e’est. a- peine umridicule. On. veil tou& les jours. a- la Ferte-sousJouarre des filles de la plus haute noblesse epouser des vilains^ U ne tiendrait. qu’amobdesdemaim d’entrer dans la. families d’un vicomte; mais , vous le saves,, je. veux. rester celibataire-. Je. crains biem que Ma. Legouv.e,. qui a fait; deux* pieces coup sue coup centre la ^anifd nobiliaire,. ne se.baltemm pen centre les moulins a vent. Elie, exists cetle vanite,.cela estsvrai, mais* aj l’etat de- douairiere qu’on respect© meme dans.* sestravers./C’est un ridicule; d’hier,. la, comedie: ne, dedt ehatier qpe les ridicules d/aujourd’hmou ceux.de; domain. Le. role, joue l’autre: jour, par madame: Guyon dans* la-. pidee- de M. Legouve a. ekcree.-par une. aetrice dfumvrai talent, par madame Allan.. Je: L’aimais beaucoup parcel quelle- avail dm naturel el de. la simplicite, deux qualites: fort: races, partout el surtoutau. theatre. Elie est morte.. Le feuilletom versa sar sat tombe toules les., larmes des sea ycux., L’art drainatique: venait de* fair© une: perte irreparabib;. mardame Allan.ne sera-it jamais* remplbcee.... Aujpurtl’hui le feuilleton declare tout net que madame Guyon- a* completement fait oublier. sa devanciere. J/endoute pour plusieurs, raisons: la-premiere j. e’est. que madame Allan n’avait pas jeue. pendant vingt-, ans icmelodcame,. ce qui est pour, moi une cause evidente-desuperioritesur madame Guyon^ la. seconde,. c’est.que. le feuilletoni m’est diantrement suspect dans ses eloggs.; il. parle absolument.c.omme la-claque applaudit, e’est le meme enthousiasme et: la, meme conviction.. Dernierement iL m’e&t tombe sous la main., a notre. CercLe des> arts, un; numeno de la Presss.. Le feuilleton rendait compte d’tm> romammtiiule F.Ensor.celee. « L’amteur a des idees altieres* et* entieres,. pour lesqueUes il se bat de la plume, comme on s’escrime dediepee..»? Le lemlleton ajentail« W heros du livre ? L’abbe dh.hr Groix-Jugarl, a. la, grandeur rigide de- ces moines de pierce qui se pencheiit,. Un livre, a la? main, dans les eiacoir gnures des vieilles cathedrales. On s’approehe, ils a’out. pas die �CIPAPITRE V. • vifeige. » Ce keros, qui n’a pa& de visage, esfpeinf« avec une vigucur dfentesquev » .Tout cela, monsieur, m a donneime* forte enviedfe lire c^& Emdrcelee, qui, « en tout, par FidSatite* dtes sentiments, le jet? des caraeteres, la grandeur* du style- est un- roman* hors ligno et a part. Iliy a de lepopeedans cette chronique populaire, ses rustiques personnages ont Fair de race des grands poemes. » Je m”en voulhis d- autant plus de ne pas- eonnaitie cette Epopee que son* succes unanime et inconteste, selbn fe- feuitieton; avait decide de la’ reputation de 1 auteur. « Tons- ceux- que* la distinction attire apprdcienf dbjfe, comme il merite-die Petre* Fetiticelknt analyste- 'dm fandfcme, Fecrrvain hardi et protend* d’Wemmtfresse-. Ceu®* que jusqtr’fei? tenaient a distance Kescrime et les eelairs- de sa- plume-, apprendronf a Kadmmer dans ee roman d’art simple et pur, on* Fartiste n’apparaW que plus grand pour setie-volbntairemenf desarme. feAinsi s’exprimait fe feuillefen ;* vous convfendrez-, monsieur, quail y avait la de quoi faire venir Fean a la bouche. Je me demandaisseu— fement comment une ehronique, une legcnde1, tine epopee pouvait etre- un> roman d’art simple et' pur-. roman ayanf swrtout pour heros. « m martyr* sorti vivant mais- devisage dtentee fes-griftes* dbg? lions d’un cirque romain.... un martyr politique, un eonspirateur en soutane, un> pretre de Ford're de ces* terribles eveques pofonafe qu£ disaient la messes, boties, eperonnes, entre deu-x pistolets- poses suf Fautel.» J ’ai done voulu en- avoir fe ernur net, et sur ma dtemande pressante, mon? Kbraire -m’a- expedie courrier par eourrier WEnsvr*celee. Ah! monsieur, quedfe deception!? Ce roman? da-ntesqueg est1 tout simplement une rehabilitation de fe chouaun'erie.' lL’auteur declare dans sa preface que les chouans ont ete-meeon-nus,. et qu’il est temps de* leur fa-ire justice, en attendant sansdbufe-qu-’ten rende le meme service aux chauffeurs. Il faut voir dlans quel style toutes ces belles choses sont ecrites! Mais moni intention n’est pas dansfetter sur un mauvais roman, je liens seufement a toucher quelques mote en passant de la critique dti feuilfefen$ et de son influence- sur le theatie^ puisque c’est fe theatre quidfeihle sujet, principal dfe cetfelettic. * Alon oncle Cotonnet etait conva-incu que fe feuilfeton perdrait la literature dramatique , etMx Dupufepaitageaif entierementson avisa eet egard. Autrefois, dfeait fe premier, on nfeutrefenait le public quo* dsespieeesqui en vafeient reelfeuicnt fepeine, ©ndbissait dans> I’bmbre uno foule de productions qui nfeat riw a deme'fer'ayee’ Fart et par consequent avec la critique. Mais-depufe que le fteuilleton sfesf ihstalle �148 L’ANNfiE LITTfiRAIRE. a poste fixe dans les journaux, qu’il est oblige de rcmplir^tous les lundis un certain nombre de colonnes, il a bien fallu changer.de systeme. Plus de choix, plus de triage, tout fait ventre pour le feuilleton; il avale un melodrame de l’Ambigu, comme une comedie du Theatre-Francais. A ce regime grossier le gout se deteriore, l’esprit s’empate, le jugement s’alourdit, on en vient a ne plus faire de diffe rence entre les mets, on ne songe pas a la qualite, et pourvu que la quantite y soil, on est content. Quelle conscience voulez-vous qu’on apporte, dans l’examen d’un melodrame? Qu’importe que cela soit bon ou mauvais, et ou est le critere pour juger de semblables pro ductions ? Or, ajoutait l’oncle Cotonnet, quand la conscience s’affaiblit sur un point, elle cede bientot sur tous les autres. Dans cette espece de promiscuite de tous les genres au milieu de laquelle il vit, le feuilleton se blasera peu a peu sur le bien et sur le mal, il les pesera dans la meme balance, il se decidera pour l’eloge ou pour le blame par des motifs completement etrangers a l’art; on peut meme prevoir le moment ou il ne blamera plus rien du tout, parce qu’il est beaucoup plus facile, beaucoup plus commode d’approuver que de discuter. L’eloge ainsi prodigue perdra toute valeur relative; la critique nesera plus que l’art d’inventer des superlatifs, et on. jugera le feuilletoniste d’apres sa force et son habilete a soulever, l’hyperbole a bras tendu. La conclusion de tout ceci etait : Sr 1’on veut sauver l’art dramatique, il faut le debarrasser de la claque et du feuilleton. Il me semble encore entendre M. Dupuis repondre avec son sang-froid habituel a mon oncle : . — Vous avez raison, mais vous voulez l’impossible. — Pourquoi done? repliquait l’impetueux Cotonnet, le feuilleton) n’existait pas autrefois; il n’est pas eternel; il passera comme ont passe tant d’autres choses; au train dont il y va, je ne lui en donne pas pour deux ans. , Nous verrons qui aura raison de l’oncle Cotonnet ou de son ami Dupuis. En attendant, je ne sais si je m’abuse, mais on dirait que le public fait deja mine de se passer de la claque. L’autre soir au Theatre-Francais le parterre a queilque peu siffle une comedie en trois actes de MM. Scribe et Bieville, intitulee: Les Reves d’amour. Dupuis, et Cotonnet auraient pris plaisir a cette piece, e’est tout a fait une comedie comme on en faisait dans leur jeune temps. On y parle de la tante Gertrude, le heros s’appelle Melfort, et il est officier de marine. On voit bien que les auteurs ont voulu faire quelques concessions au �CHAPITRE V. 149 gout moderne en introduisant dans Faction uncanotier; mais cette concession ne tire pas a consequence, la forme classique de l’oeuvre n’en est point alteree sensiblement: c’est du pur Scribe de 1825. Le poete se propose de donner une vigoureuse lecon a madame Dalibon, jeune femme romanesque, unie au meilleur, au plus tendre des epoux, et qui passe son temps a lire et a relire des lettres d’amour. Heureusement pour elle et pour M. Dalibon, le signataire de ces let tres, le jeune Melfort, esf mort depuis longtemps; madame Dalibon n’est coupable que de fidelite a un souvenir. Est-ce la vraiment un crime? La jeune femme voudrait bien se faire quelque illusion ladessus, mais elle a pour belle-soeur un dragon de vertu et de bon sens, Jeanne, une demoiselle de vingt ans, aussi ferme dans le celibat a cet age que je le suis au mien; c’est l’eloquence et la sagesseen personne qui, prechant sans cesse madame Dalibon, lui remontrant a tout bout de champ le danger, le ridicule des sentiments et des idees romanesques, la force enfin a bruler les lettres du jeune Melfort, et meme une meche de ses cheveux. Comme je m’etonnais un peu de la precoce et ferme raison de mademoiselle Jeanne, mon voisin de stalle m’a fait observer que c’etait le physique de l’actrice chargee de ce role qui le voulait ainsi. Regardez en effet, a-t-il ajoute, mademoi selle Madeleine Brohan, ces epaules, ce port, ce sourire, ce regard doux, c’est bien la jeunesse, si vous voulez, mais une jeunesse luxuriante, majestueuse; on ne peut pas ecrire des roles d’evapdree, de petite folle pour une actrice qui jouera peut-etre les reines demain. Cette reflexion me parut juste, et il n’a fallu rien moins qu’un caractere aussi vigoureusement trempe que celui de mademoiselle Jeanne pour me rassurer, lorsque, par un coup de theatre auSsi hardi qu’inattendu, les auteurs ont ramene le jeune Melfort sur la scene. Que deviendrait madame Dalibon sans sa belle-soeur? Entrainee par son imagination vive et ardente, elle se perdrait'vingt fois pour une; vingt fois meme elle se croit perdue. Mademoiselle Jeanne, heureu sement, veille sur cette tete folle. Mais;- 6 surprise! d peripetie! trou bles, alarmes, regrets, incertitudes, remords de madame Dalibon, tout cela est en pure perte; 1‘e jeune Melfort ne l’aime pas, il ne l’a jamais aimee. C’est Jeanne qu’il adore, c’est elle qu’il veut epouser. Et les lettres brulees ce matin, que la pauvre madame Dalrbon lisait et relisait sans cesse? c’est a Jeanne qu’elles etaient adressees. Que Ton corrige les femmes romanesques, je ne m’y oppose pas, c’est le droit de la comedie. Les femmes romanesques ne sont jamais �<150 L’ANNEE-LITTER <YI RET heurcuses ni leurs maris non plus; mais, dans cette.cuponstance,3 prends le parti de madame Dalibon. C’est le seul personnage vraiment interessant de la piece. Les auteurs 1 ont rendue ridicule., .moi je da trouve fort a plaindre ; car avec .la sensibilite exaltee .qu’on M donne, elle nepeut manquer de souffrir beaucoup-du role qu’on ffl fait jouer, et dl y a vraiment de guoi. Je isais bien .que M. Scribe arrange les .choses ;a sa facon .et gu’il .ne lui .en coutequ’un Iraitde plume pour que madame .Dalibon devienne tout a .coup amoureuse de son mart; maiss’dlm’endaut .pas davantage a un .auteur pour fmir une piece, le spectate ur, delicat, nese-contentepas a si .peu de frais;; la comedie nlest pas lerminee dans .son esprit, mais seulement sur la scene. Que dira Je feuilleton de cette piece? A sa .place Je n’en paTlerais pas.. .Mais di les theatres ne donnent .aucun -autre lOiivrage non mean pendant , la semaine, .avec quoi uempliraddlses douze colonnes ? Le feuilletan «est done oblige de parler des pieces anediocres et meme naauvaiscs .absolument a^mme de -cellcs .qui sont bonnes; pour lui, comme pourla claque, il.n^y .a pas de chute,. C’etait la un -autre grief de mon-onde Cotonnet centre le feuilleion, il ne lui nst pas w.m? permis., disait-dl, de rendre dajustice du. silence.. ■ Pour.moi, monsieur, je montrerais ivolontiers quelque indulgence paurJa piece aiouvelle, parce quo je wis -bien:quliil faut a tout prix encouragerla comedic.Leproverhe lui,a fait du tort dans-ces dernfors temps. Vous .autres., a Paris, vous -commencez a Aire debarrasses ,de cette epidemic, mais en province-elle sevit-encoreavecune grande an—J tensile. Les femnaes ^urtout en..sont.atteintes,. .Maus.av.ons.-eu des nomhreuxde proverbeala IVnle-SDUs-Jouanre, un enfre autres, celm de madame Javart dont .mon .onole parle dans seslettres : elle s’est jeteedans le proverhe .a -corps perdu..« Lst-ce done -si difficile, me disait-elle, de meftreen :s.cene une,marquise .otun chevalier., et. de lour prefe^les prqpos les plus ngreables .et les plus deliGats du monde? mais je ne fais moi-mernepas autre chose de toute la journee quedes bons mots -gue Tontcite partout. A demi couchee dans ma chaise longue, je lutte de subtilite.et d’esprit avec notr.e recieveur qui est une fine lame, .comme vous. savez, en.matiere degoiit. Le sous-prefot gui a publie autrefois un volume de vers recherche ma conversation. Ge serait donc .bien le diable si je laissais -ma marquise et mon chevalier au milieu d’une scene ie bee dans I’eam, ou si, ayant entrepris de lour faire dire les .choses.les plus galantes, je les faisais parler comme des �■CttvtPFTdVE V. coisons. Lisette,dupapierglacc, de l’encre rose, et ma plume d’oiseauwrache. » ot Sepuis.qn’dlle Tait des proverbes, madame Javart a ‘debaptise 'Sa survante Tfangoise; elle ne I’appelle vj>ltEis que Lisette et que’lqudfdis Uieme Marton. ‘ Cietait tune chose Gonnrre de ’tout JattarreJqKie7madameHBucoudray brodait wne paire de bretolles pour la fete-de mon ami Vincent; w touthien et itoufihnnnenr j's’niitend.-Sesunmurs'et-eel’les de Vincent sontnu’dessus du swppbn, ils‘Solvent d’ailleurs-canvdler prodhainement en -secondes noces, car its sont veufs tous les deux. La tSaint.Ohrysostome arrive, pas debretellcs. Vincent aceourt dhez moi'desole. «< ¥ous voyez-un shomme au-desespoir, me di't-il; ra •proi'senges-tu done, ;bZelie? C’etartana fdte ’hier dt mes bretelles ri’oiitpasparu, LeSfnrais-tu'donnees^amnTival, femme perftde^ a/coup strr ye ne steviwai pas a mon malheur, ye me percerai de ceenr aux pieds de Linfidele. » ■ -Ue'vole chezmadame^Ducoudray pour iPirftormer-de'Ce^qui se passe. J X<-J’ai appris, :meTtpond-elle,que madame Javart’composeun proVerbe : aurait-elle ^intention-de mTrnmilier par'hasard’P Mais nous pouvons repondre a son bon tour par un autre, -et 'ecrire nous aussi un proverbe. J’ai!la, il est vrai, des bretelles sur -le metier, mais elles attendrent. ‘-Geluia^-qui.je les destine, me -disais-ye, •sera-charme d’apprendre que jersais repondre'aux aflaques 'demes -ermemis'; mais je vois bien que j’aa affaire % unliommeprosaique qtii neme-comprendrait pas. Toitt-eSt rompu entre nous,diteMeJlui •demapart. ® Autrefois, ‘Ges dames auraierit porte des petits -chiens dans leur manchon, -mahitenariLdllesy metterft leu-rs proverbes. Wus avons piatre-tbeatreS‘de:so'cidte'rien,qu!ailaT'efte-sous-Jouarre, ye ne parle pas du Teste de'l’arrondis&emeht1. Les proverbes orft -remplace da -ta pisserie. Wos belles 'dames ne brodent plus •qu’avec la plume. -Ges raffmees traitent la langue avec tontela-coquetterie imaginable; biles seplafeeiita ebouriffer une phrase pourfire ensuite del’dtrange mine qu’elle a, coiffee en coup de vent. Tel adjectif qui demande audience, dies le'laissent morfondre:ala porte, eomme un amcrureux venu a la inauvaise heure”, tel autre, presse de sen alleret tout a fait deplace dans laTOmpagnie, ne peut-dbtenirlaperrmission de;sotftir.‘Ce'qm les<aniusb surtout, c’est de jeter des mdtsvlansune-chtffonmere,-'et'd ?y'puiser aii hasard. On leur a dit que Tart d’ecrire n’est pas plus difficile • que cela. ‘ ... �452 L’ANNEE LITTERAIRE. Le proverbe est decidement tombe en quenouille, le voila class© parmi les chiffons, et devenu en quelque sorte un objet de toilette pour les dames. Il est choye, fete, caresse dans les boudoirs; on le bourre de sucreries, tant qu’il pourrait bien en mourir comme VertVert. C’est ce que je lui souhaite le plus promptement possible, car s’il dure encore quelque temps, il achevera de detruire le peu qui reste de l’ancienne gaiete franchise. Figurez-vous, monsieur, qua la Ferte-sous-Jouarre nous ne nous sommes pas deguises une seule fois pendant tout le carnaval; on n’a fait que jouer des proverbes. Etes-vous partisan du theatre bourgeois? pour moi, monsieur, j’ai contre lui une violente antipathie. C’est tout au plus si je tolere la charade en societe. C’est encore une maniere de ne pas aller dans le monde, et je m’explique bien pourquoi la comedie bourgeoise est si fort devenue a la mode; quand la societe ne s’interesse plus a rien, qu’elle est ennuyee, blasee, elle se met a jouer la comedie. Cela dis pense de causer, ou cela fournit un theme tout fait de conversation, ce qui revient absolument au meme. La noblesse frivole et indifferente du dix-huitieme siecle, a la veille de la revolution, passait son temps a jouer la comedie dans ses chateaux. Je n’aime pas a voir revenir cette mode, c’est un signe de decadence pour la societe. Je ne parle pas des petits ridicules d’amour-propreet devanite que peut faire naitre et developper la comedie bourgeoise, ni de l’influence qu’elle peut exercer sur les moeurs, quoique la chose vaille bien la peine d’etre traitee; il est certain que la comedie bourgeoise ne favorise pas l’esprit de conversation. En voiture, en chemin de fer, par tout ou vous vous trouvez en contact avec un homme pendant un temps determine, vous eprouvez le besoin d’entrer en communication avec lui. Il n’en est pas de meme au theatre; une salle de spectacle, j’en ai fait souvent l’experience sur moi-meme, qui me pique pourtant d’etre assez communicatif, est le seul endroit du monde ou l’on puisse rester assis pendant quatre ou cinq heures a cote d’un de ses semblables sans echanger une parole avec lui. Le whist, le silencieux whist lui-meme, vaut mieux pour meler les hommes que le theatre. Les gens que vous invitez chez vous pour assister a la representa tion d’un vaudeville resteront completement etrangers les uns aux autres, comme des gens qui se sont rencontres non pas dans la meme maison, mais dans la meme salle de spectacle. Ln autre symptome non moins grave de la decadence de la societe francaise, c’est le succes des escamoteurs. Autrefois on allait voir ces �CHAPITRE V. 133 gens-la chez eux; on ne les faisait pas venir chez soi, sinon pour distraire des enfants. Aujourd’hui l’escamoteur est le roi de toutes les fetes, on invite les gens expres pour leur montrer des tours de cartes. Rien n’est triste comme de voir une centaine de femmes couvertes de fleurs et de diamants rangees en cercle autour d’une table a muscades, et n’ouvrant la bouche que pour rire des calembredaines du prestidigitateur. Mais revenons au theatre, s’il vous plait. Il faut que je vous l’avoue, monsieur, j’ai toujours eu un faible pour le drame. C’etaif meme la un de mes plus ordinaires sujets de discussion et de dissentiment avec mQn oncle. Il avait beau me dire que je manquais de gout, que le drame etait un genre faux, batard, impossible, qu’il n’y avait de reel que la comedie et la tragedie, toute son eloquence echouait contre un penchant irresistible. Je l’ai tou jours cache a mon oncle, cela eut empoisonne ses derniers jours, mais j’ai plusieurs drames en portefeuille. Le moment est peut-etre venu de les en tirer, car le drame semble reprendre faveur; je parle du drame veritable, car on ne saurait donner ce nom aux exhibitions de decors et de machines auxquelles se livrent depuis si longtemps les theatres du boulevard, i J’ai vu V Outrage a la Porte-Saint-Martin; c’est le drame tel que je It’entends, le drame en habit noir, sans mise en scene, sans la colla boration du machiniste. L’action se passe de nos jours, elle est simple, pathetique, soutenue avec art et rapide, ce qui est une grande qualite. Comme je n’ai point la pretention d’ecrire un feuilleton, je ne vous dirai pas que la piece de MM. Barriere et Plouvier est un chefd’oeuvre : je lui trouve au contraire plus d’un defaut, entre autres celui de commencer par une exposition un peu trop longue. On aurait pu nous dire plus vite comment le pere d’Helene s’est ruine, et com ment celle-ci est devenue presque subitement folle sans qu’on puisse assigner aucune cause a safolie. Il y a des femmes auxquelles la folie va bien,et qu’on epouserait presque par cette seule raison qu’elles ont perdu l’esprit, tant elles mettent de grace et de sensibilite dans la demence. Helene est de ce nombre, elle a au plus haut degre le pres tige et la poesie de la folie, si bien que Jacques d’Albret en devient amoureux et en fait sa femme. Quelques mois s’ecoulent entre le premier et le second acte ; Helene est rendue a la raison, l’amour de Jacques l’a guerie. Son mariage a ete celebre dans la journee; le soir est venu, Helene est heureuse et cependant inquiete, troublee, agitee de je ne sais quelles funestes apprehensions; son mari l’a entrainee �154 L’ANN&E LITTER Al RE. vers la chambre nuptiale, elleest settle avec lui, 51 vent la-serrer dans ses bras, elle frissonne; il s’approdhe, 51 'cherdhe a lui prendre la main, die pousseuncri de tenreur, >le passe lui re vient a la memoireq il y a deux;ans, la nuit,nn'.homme -s’etait irttroduitdansoctte-meme chambre par la fendtre feissee ouverte, et 51 en etait sorti la -laissarit folleetdeshonoree. I Ici commence veellemerit de drame. .> Jacques, maitre du secret de .;sa femme, jure de la -venger et de punirleeoupable. fHdlene, desesperee d’avoir Tiutpartager aun honnete homme une shonte dorit elle n’avait pas conscience, se refugie dans la folie pour -echapper a I’horrible realite de sa situation, elle feint d’avoir perdu nine seconde-fois la raison, maisnne larme •qti’-dh laissefomber :sur ll-a imam de -sonmani eclaire -celui-ci. Les feus ne pleurent pas, la vie du -coeur s’eteint en meme temps que celfe 'de 1’intelligence. Jacques,•desilepremier-moment, apardonne a Helene , maisrfe bariheur est impossible pour iui tant quUl ri’aura pas trouve l’Jaommerde la ;nuit tfatale. ‘<Get homme eSt le mari de sa propre ^eeur, ton -certain Raoul de Brives, que je vous donne bien comme le plus -miserable coquin qui ait jamais fume son <oigare but les'trottoirs della bonne ville de Mnrseille. Savez-vous <qtti fait <cette belle decouverte? c’est precisement le pere de Raoul, un anciemavocatgeneral, un Briitus-des Bouchesdu-Rhone ^capable d’envoy er -sonfils aux assises, de requerirconfre luibt de:reponsseriradinission.deS‘ciKCoustances attenuantes. Rarlezmoi.de-ceshomnaeslout d-une piece, -on m’en wit pas assez dans les pieces reabstes de nos jours, pleines de caracteres touches et indecis. Cequeje-ne.comprendspas bien, parexemple^cfest ledevouementde Raymond-de Braves pour son sccleratdefrere.; il s’estbattu autrefois a sa place, clestvraipmais <ce n’est point la une -raison pour prendre a sa charge tous ales *az$r/^esquesson.ame ;a pu eommettre dans les baslides deMarseille. Lola.amene, ilest'vrai,;dans 1’esprit de Jacques et de .M. de Brives de pure, des Moutes, des (hesitations d ’un effet asscz dramatique paw nous faire prendre patience jusqu’au *oinquieme acte., ou le mari et de seducteurse trouventface a face, teepee a ;la main. Admirez ici :le igout dn public francais pour l’emphase dont seplaignaitlantmon -ancle iGotonneL Touton portant des-buttes a l’infame Raoul, Jacques va ■s’imaginer, on nesait drop pourquoi, i que ce n’est geut-etre pas pourlui que sa femme fait des woeux en ee moment. Ce doute le trouble au point qu’il laisse tornber son epee; �GHAPITRE X . . » si Helene se trouvait pas Japour la ramasser.enlui disant: Thte-itef le crime driompherait ale da vertu. A ce tue-Ae fort Inutile, selonmoi, car tout Je monde saiLbien q.ue Jafemme aime son mari, ct non pas celui qui l’;a>outragee,.la salle a ecl stolen applaudissements Irene— tiques^cola a emporte le sucres. ■•C’etait ipourlant Je meme public *£[ui avatt.sithien compris la larme'd’Helen^, cette larme quiavait fait dire a.Jacques.:«Tn n’es pas folie 1<» . ^Qtetnage, je vous Tai -dit, most point nn .chef-d’oeuvre sans doute; les caracteres dt 'meme les -passions .manquent dans ce drame;;. il n y a guere que des situations et des-effets, tmais dies (situations^ ces effets ne sont -.depourvus nude force, ni d’tune tcertaine<opiginalite» Je vous ai confesse d’ailleurs ma partialite pour le .drame en general. Je voudrais qu’on y ;revint un pen. JI me sembleiqu’on valaitmfou-x a Tepoque oil le -drame efail a Ja mode * il y avait -alors un public dans la salle, desacteurs^sur Jes planches<etd.es juges dans des juup-* naux. -Un vrai‘drame n’est-il pas preferable*, a font prendre, a ces compositions moitie ligue, moitie maisin, qm;Gherohent unmomorit a.faire ?rire, un moment apres.a daire pJeurer, -eiiquime sont ni des comedies ni des dramas.? ..Je .tes verrais tdisparaite;avec plaisir.amsi gue .ces vastes mecamques dialoguees-ou Je peintre ictde machimste remplacent Tauteun. >Si peu que de eoeiiusoit teuchet, (c’eslitoujours quelque-dhose; n’est-il pas singulieridesongcrque des milliors^d’an-" dividus vont s’entasser dans une salle de spectacle pbupwir un vaisseau de carton.? Passe encore pour cela; mais que dire de ces pauvres chefs-d’oeuvre comme Eaust indignemeni traceslisten.ballets?? ; J’ai Teau .cher.cher ■ a-me faire une .raison, aemme «<dit; ill y ;a unc chose dent je ne -puis prendre mon parti .• .-c’est la rclaque. iNon pas qu’elle soit plus insupportable au theatre de la Porte-Saint— Martin •.qu’ailleurs, maisl’tOzz/riz^e aula prouveque ie public pouvait a la rigueur se passer destimulant, set (que,;si an de voulait bien, il ne^crait pas impossible -de mettre les .claqueurs ,a JapoKtedeltans les JMatres,. Llart rserait.sau«ve sidlan;avait ice(courage;; j ’en suis-cw-t tain,apioique ce ne ?s;oit pas learns de daut le monde.. dNous.avons.a la Forte, tdepuis J’aamee derniere, un chef<de claque retire; il est mon voisin; nous nous rencontrons souvent;ala';pramenade,; quoique dune education asscz. negligee, it ne manque pas dlespiitet j ’ aimea Jefaire causer’de temps en temps* C’est principalement aur son metier qu’il -est amusant ?a entendre rcMomcher voisin,me disait-il, Tautre jour, pendant pres de trente ans, j’ai �.156 L’ANNtfE LITT^RAIRE. exerce la profession de chef de claque, et je suis parvenu a elever la claque au rang d’une des institutions les plus honorables, et les plusl utiles de 1’Etat. Je prononcais souverainement sur l’a-propos d’une entree ou d’une sortie, sur le sei d’un bon mot, sur l’effet d’un denoument. Et quel aimable eclectisme, quelle douce tolerance I Les querelles litteraires n’existaient pas pour moi; j’applaudissais egalement les romantiques et les classiques, la tragedie et le drame, le proverbeet la comedie. J’ose dire que pendant trente ans les hommes ont pu apprendre a mon ecole non-seulement l’art dramatique, mais encore la plus haute philosophic. « Je ne dis pas qu’il ne m’en ait rien coute, et que j’aie toujours a me louer de mes eleves. Mais Orphee lui-meme ne fut-il pas un peu egratigne par les tigres qu’il charmait des sons de sa lyre?Il me soul vient que je recus plus d’un horion a la premiere representation d’Hemani, et a celle de Christine d Fontainebleau, j’eus une cote presque enfoncee. Mais ce sont la des blessures recues au champ d’honneur. Je me les rappelle avec orgueil. « Vous vous plaignez beaucoup.(de la claque; c’est que vous na 1’avez point encore examinee a son veritable point de vue. « La claque est une necessity sociale. On nie cette verite, mais il faudra tot ou tard se rendre a ^’evidence, On a toujours voulu la supprimer, ©n a toujours ete force de la maintenir. Plus de claqueJ plus de theatre. «Il faut, dites-vous, laisser au public ie droit de juger les pieces, d’applaudir les acteurs, en uh mot, de distribuer la gloire. Dans ce pays de France, on se paye volontiers de mots, et quand la chose a disparu, pourvu que: le mot reste, tout le monde est content. Le public ! voila un mot, mais la chose que ce mot represente, faitesmoi le plaisir de me dire ou elle est ? Les uns vont au theatre pour causer de leurs affaires, les autres pour dormir, le plus grand nombre par habitude; ils s’amusaient autrefois au theatre, ils y retournent par souvenir. Le public aujourd’hui se compose done de gens qui causent, de gens qui revent a l’operation qu’ils feront a la bourse de demain, dc<gens qui dorment, et d’une centaine de gens qui s’interessent a la piece. « Or, figurez-vous quel effet pitoyable produisent une vingtaine de mains battant dans une salle. Le silence complet vaudrait bien mieux. Quoi! si peu d’applaudissements ! la piece que nous sommes censes ecouter, se disent l’homme endormi qui se reveille, l’homme �CHAPITRE V. ‘ qui Buse et 1’homme qui reve, doit etre fort mauvaise, et ils se remettent a dormir, a causer, a rever. Si je ne suis pas la pour me joindre aux applaudissements, pour les renforcer, la piece tombe et le directeur est oblige de fermer boutique. Et l’acteur, monsieur, l’acteur! Croyez-vous qu’on trouvera aisement des gens pour faire ce metier de comedien lorsque les applaudissements dependront de cet^tre de raison qu’on nomme le public? Trouvez le moyen de passionner le public, ou gardez la claque, je vous defie de vous tirer de la. » I Cette these est paradoxale en diable, mais je ne la veux point discuter aujourd’hui. Je m’en tiens’a ma devise : Il faut supprimer la claque, dans les theatres de musique surtout; e’est la qu’elle est vraiment odieuse par la frenesie de son enthousiasme; elle est partout, elle applaudit tout, elle fait tout bisser. C’est a prendre son chapeau et a s’en aller des le premier acte. J’etais a la premiere representation de la Fee Carabosse, au Theatre-Lyrique; j’en suis sorti furieux, n’ayant pas compris grand’choselau poeme et rien du: tout a la mu sique. Les contes de fees sont faits pour etre lus et non representes. J’alme a me figurer la fee Melodine changee en vieille femme bossue par la jalousie d’une rivale jalouse de sa jolie tete et de sa jolie voix, feiais si on me montre Carabosse elle-meme avec ses haillons et sa bosse, adieu le charme et la pitie. Je suis heureux qu’elle trouve enfin le fiance dont le baiser doit lui rendre sa jeunesse et sa beaute; ■quant au rustre qui l’embrasse, je demande qu’on me le cache. Decors, costumes, etoffes d’or et de soie, rien de tout cela ne vaut les merveilles que mon imagination deroule.devant moi. Qu’est-ce que la voix de madame Ugalde a cote de celle que j’entends en reve au coin de mon feu? On a mis un grand nombre de contes de fees au theatre, ou, pour mieux dire, tous y ont passe; cherchez combien y sont restes : trois ou quatre tout au plus. C’est la naivete qui fait le ’charme de ces recits; elle disparait a la scene. La realite remplace la fiction. L’esprit cesse d’etre acteur dans le drame^il n’y en a plus que pour les yeux. MM. Lockroy et Cogniard ont arrange leur conte avec beaucoup d’habilete scenique, mais il m’a ete. impossible de m’y interesser. Je ne m’en prends qu’a moi seul, je n’aime les feeries que dans les livres. Vous allez peut-etre, monsieur, me taxer de barbarie et de provincialismej mais, en fait de musique d opera-comique, j en suis reste a la Dame blanche, au Pre aux clercs, a Zampa, a la Fiancee; �» l’ankSe'Eitt Fraire. j&ni*arnete ail Homino noir. Au dela, il nly a- pour moi quo tene*^ hares., Je ne comprends absolument rien a; la musique des; Jeunes* compositeurs. Vous me direzfqu& presque’ tout' le monde en est la,, qu’oni n’aime guere que la musique qw’bn a entendue dkns- sa jem~ riesse. Au plus' fort; du sueees dfe* la Rome blanch#, que de’ gens* regreftaient encore Fontow efr Stephanie1. Vous vous etes arrete aHerold!,. Boieldieu et Aulier, coniine dtautres sont restes- a Nicolo, & Berten; et. a Daleyrac;: eelte ne: prouve point quo- fe compositeurs d?auujourd’hui manquent de talent; vous ne les goutez pas, d’autres-les> comprennent. En musique, comme en litterature et en peinture, chaCUBialcs gouts; db son age et de^sa- generation'. J’eir- demeure parfaitement d’accord avec vous, permettez-moi cependant une observation: on chante.beancoup raoihsles maitres; du jour que ceux d’autrefeisv Ne me repondez pas queje vis en province, que je suis un etreQiBWKv-Uu vrai dilettante de la Ferte^sous-jbuarre. Jte ne vous; parle pas< de: mon chef-lieu seutement, mais'deParis- et die la France entiere; EesoperasmowveauxHedevaennentpas-populaires. G’est unfhit*. 'Jenez-,,. monsieur; jeveux etre-juste; celatient moins-au talent des; musiciens d’aujourd’hui qu’aux. dispositions du public. La musique Di est plus: a la models de* 1825 ai 1848-,, il y a> eu: w periode de pres de vingt-cinq-ans, pendantlaquelle ouapu croireque hFrance etait devenue la, nation- lat phis musicale dfel’Europe.. Essayez de compter fesi grands succes lyriqwes <fe cette periode-:: la Muette, GuillaumeTeH^ le Gomfx Qry;, Robert le Hiable, lu Have, lee- Huguenots', le Rre aux elereerZ.ampa,.Fm. Hiavolby- ^sini, Auber; Meyerbeer, Adam?,- Bellini,. Donizetti. Bappelez—vous tant de chanteurs et de ehanteuses-illustees,, fe safes rivallsani avec la scene, la mort de madame Malibran devenue. uni deuil. public, les debuts^ de Duprez passes.a-1 etat devenemenfeomme ua; changementde ministere, une cavatine- de Rubini faisant concurrence a uir> discourse de Mi. Guizot ou de Mr. Thiers,, et la retract®. prematuree de. mademoiselle Falconarr.achant presque. dps femes- au journalisme.. Convenez- que nous. n’en. sommes. plus’ la. Quiest-ceq-ui- salt au juste aujourd’huiles nomsdfes premiers chan* teurset de la premiere chanteuse de t Opera.? person nn. pour- afnsii dire. Que vous est—il reste dans la memoire, du. dernier ouvrage que vous avez vu representer ? riern Eh biend: avecles ehanteursincoianus^ avec les partitions quon. ne grave meme pas, la salle de FAcademic demusique est- »oujours? pleme. ML Halevy intente, dit-on, unproces �MB €.HAPITRE¥. a. ses, edileurs pour les forcer a dormer soaplus riant opera ® lagra— vurc.. Guevmard et madame Lauters, puisque tours noms merevipTT^ ncnt, chantent. devant un parterre aussi garni qpue Duprezet made moiselle. Falcon, et la Magicierme^ des recettes aussi considerables que Guillaume T.elleX, les- Hiuguenats. Quel, symptom p. plus ecl a taut de la decadence de l’art musical ? Cette, decadence at du vous; frapper- si. vousj avez; assiste vendredi dernier a la premiere representation dumouveloperade M. Felicie® ^i^Herculmum.. J-’aireeonnw aveeeffroi q.uemon chef declaque U-exageraff .rien. Si les gens, du lustre niavaienf pris le parti dapplandir cheque morceau.a-.tout rompne, !® salle serail restee silencieuse., IL s agissait pourtantd’un ouvrageecritpar-un compositeur- distingue quidonne plus a l’inspiration qu’aumetierpet dont la premiere parti tion, sur la scene de L’Academie de musique. auraii du reveiller l’attem tion des spectateursr. Il n’en,airien e.te.. Cela tienl peut-etre; au poeme^ qui n’offr.epas un intenet bion, vif.nl bien soutenu. Ge poeme-,. pourrait-on dire-, n’a ete feit par personne,. tant.il-a-end,’auteursquiy onfi pus la, main.. Il s’est fait, tout seuh aux. repetition^, ee qui arrive bien jdus, souvent quou ne pense*. On. a nomme.pourtanl MM-. Mery et Iladob. J’ai ce. livret sous les yeux^il; eontient sur ehaque' deeor des notes.-fort interessantes; ainsi, a prop.os deladJGGoration duideusieme acte-, nous, lisons-au bas de la page r « La-configuration- geologique de. ces. metiers, qui semble appartenir an caprice; du peinire^ m son modele exact a So rrente d ans.le-voi&inage de; Naples ..Ce^vaate paysage est l’ceuvre de M. Desplechin, un de"os plus grands poetes du decor.», C’estiuie agreable innovation, tolivretepaEgnera.ddsorniaisla peine an fcuillcton de chercher des phrases pour louer dignement le& decoBateurs de l’Opera„ Pourquor le livret ne ferait-il pas pour les chanteurs ce qu’il vient de faire pour les peintres.? J’aimerais assez a lire aussi a la fin d’un morceau: « Cet air est chante par M. Roger, un de nos plus grands poetes de la gamme. » Sans me piquer de connaissances fort etendues en musique, j’ai pris plaisir a entendre plusieurs morceaux de cette partition : une romance au premier acte, des airs de danse au deuxieme, un fort beau duo au dernier, et quantite de choses fines et dedicates que je ne puis analyser, mais le public n’y prenait pas trop garde, il attendait IBruption du Vesuve. C’est triste, mais c’est comme ca. MConsolons-nous en songeant que si la musique devient indifferent© aux classes elevees de la societe, elle penetre chaque jour davantage �160 L’ANNfiE LITTfiRAIRE. — CHAPITRE V. au sein des masses. Je ne m’afflige pas outre mesure de la situation assez triste de la musique en France. 11 y avait quejque chose qui sonnait faux dans l’enthousiasme qu’on semblait eprouver pour elle. On accordait- aux chanteurs et chanteuses une importance qu’ils ne doivent point avoir au sein d’une nation forte et virile; les tenors prenaient le pas sur les gens de lettres, ce qui ne presageait rien de bon pour l’avenir. Cependant, comme cette indifference pour la musique s’etend, il faut en convenir, sur tous les arts en general, j’emporte de mon sejour a Paris une conviction assez triste, c’est que ce qu’on nomme la societe elegante et polie se desinteresse de plus en plus chaque jour des questions d’art, de litterature, de morale, qui valent bien les questions d’interet materiel. On dirait que toutes ces choses ne la regardent pas, et ne sont pas dignes qu’on prenne la peine de se faire une opinion sur elles. Aussi la claque et le feuilleton ont-ils seuls la parole en ce moment. Qu’on y prenne garde cepen dant, une societe abdique lorsqu’elle cesse d’avoir une opinion sur les choses dont nous venons de parler. La societe francaise n’en est point encore la, il faut l’es^perer; c’est le devoir de tous ceux qui tiennent une plume de l’avertir et de la tirer de la torpeur ou elle s’endort, c’est pourquoi j’ai pris la liberte de vous ecrire cette.lettre, dont vous ejcuserez le decousu; j’aurais voulu la faire plus courte, mais je n’en ai pas eu le temps. J’ai embrasse d’ailleurs trop de matieres a la fois. N’est pas ecrivain, qui ne sait pas se borner, disait mon oncle Cotonnet; une autre fois je tacherai de mieux me conformer a ce sage precepte. Agreez, monsieur, l’assurance de ma consideration la plus dis— tinguee. COTONNET neveu. ; .A La Ferti-sous-Jouarre, 5 mars <859. "•>,>)■ iff. r* ■ .. •iLuj j • v ■ • : TAXILE DELORD. . ■--•Hal Paris. — Imprimerie de P.-A. Bourdier et C,e, rue Mazarine, 30. l.-m � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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The press teems with criticisms, and the pulpits are discussing the novel as though it were a theological treatise by an eminent divine. In view of this widespread interest, the New York World sent a reporter to wait on Colonel Ingersoll, whose views on religion are con sidered of the highest importance. He commands an immense audience in America. His lectures are listened to by thousands wherever he goes, his pamphlets are circulated wholesale, and his brilliant defence of Freethought against Mr. Gladstone and Cardinal Manning has, if possible, placed him still higher m the public esteem. Colonel Ingersoll received the World reporter with his usual affability, and launched forth as follows in answer to leading questions. “ Why do people read a book like Robert Elsmere, and why do they take any interest in if!” Simply because they are not satisfied with the rehgion of our day. The civilised world has outgrown the greater �4 Repairing the Idols. part of the Christian creed. Civilised people have lost their belief in the reforming power of punishment. They find that whips and imprisonment have but little influence for good. The truth has dawned upon their minds that eternal punishment is infinite cruelty—that it can serve no good purpose, and that the eternity of hell makes heaven impossible. That there can be in this universe no perfectly happy place while there is a • perfectly miserable place—that no infinite being can be good who knowingly and, as one may say, wilfully created myriads of human beings, knowing that they would be eternally miserable. In other words, the civilised man is greater, tenderer, nobler, nearer just than the old idea of God. The ideal of a few thou sand years ago is far below the real of to-day. No good man now would do what Jehovah is said to have done four thousand years ago, and no civilised human being would now do what, according to the Christian religion, Christ threatens to do at the day of judgment. Has the Christian religion changed in theory of late years, Colonel Ingersoll ? A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshipped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that nature is as cruel as the Bible, so that, if the’ God of Nature did not write the Bible, this god at least has caused earth quakes and pestilence and famine, and this god has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question—not as to whether the Bible is inspired, and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or �Hep airing the Idols. 5 not. The intelligence of Christendom to-day does not believe in an inspired religion any more than it believes in an inspired art or an inspired literature. If there be an infinite God, inspiration in some particular regard would be a patch—it would be the puttying of a crack, the hiding of a defect—in other words, it would show that the general plan was defective. Do you consider any religion adequate ? A good man, living in England, drawing a certain salary for reading certain prayers on stated occasions, for making a few remarks on the subject of religion, putting on clothes of a certain cut, wearing a gown with certain frills and flounces starched in an orthodox manner, and then looking about him at the suffering and agony of the world, would not feel satisfied that he was doing anything of value to the human race. In the first place, he would deplore his own weakness, his own poverty, his inability to help his fellow men. He would long every moment for wealth, that he might feed the hungry and clothe the naked—for knowledge, for miraculous power, that he might heal the sick and the lame, and that he might give to the deformed the beauty of proportion. He would begin to wonder how a being of infinite goodness and infinite power could allow his children to die, to suffer, to be deformed by necessity, by poverty, to be tempted beyond resistance ; how he could allow the few to live in luxury and the many in poverty and want, and the more he wondered the more useless and ironical would seem to himself his sermons and his prayers. Such a man is driven to the conclusion that religion accom plishes but little; that it creates as much want as it �6 Repairing the Idols. alleviates, and that it burdens the world with parasites. Such a man would be forced to think of the millions wasted in superstition. In other words, the inadequacy, the uselessness, of religion would be forced upon his mind. He would ask himself the question : “ Is it possible that this is a divine institution ? Is this all that man can do with the assistance of God ? Is this the best ?” That is a perfectly reasonable question, is it not, Colonel Ingersoll? The moment a man reaches the point where he asks himself this question he has ceased to be an orthodox Christian. It will not do to say that in some other world justice will be done. If God allows injustice to triumph here, why not there ? Robert Elsmere stands in the dawn of philosophy. There is hardly light enough for him to see clearly; but there is so much light that the stars in the night of superstition are obscured. You do not deny that a religious belief is a great comfort ? There is one thing that it is impossible for me to comprehend. Why should anyone, when convinced that Christianity is a superstition, have or feel a sense of loss ? Certainly a man acquainted with England, with London, having at the same time something like a heart, must feel overwhelmed by the failure of what is knjown as- Christianity. Hundreds of thousands exist there without decent food, dwelling in tenements, clothed with rags, familiar with every form of vulgar vice, where the honest poor eat the crust that the �Repairing the Idols. i 7 vicious throw away. When, this man of intelligence, of heart, visits the courts ; when he finds human liberty a thing treated as of no value, and when he hears the judge sentencing girls and boys to the penitentiary— knowing that a stain is being put upon them that all the tears of all the coming years can never wash away —knowing, too, and feeling that this is done without the slightest regret, without the slightest sympathy, as a mere matter of form, and that the jndge puts this brand of infamy upon the forehead of the convict just as cheerfully as a Mexican brands his cattle ; and when this man of intelligence and heart knows that these poor people are simply the victims of society, the unfortunates who stumble and over whose body rolls the Juggernaut—he knows that there is, or at least appears to be, no power above or below working for righteousness—that from the heavens is stretched no protecting hand. And when a man of intelligence and heart in England visits the workhouse, the last resting place of honest labor ; when he thinks that the young man, without any great intelligence but with a good constitution, starts in the morning of, his life for the workhouse, and that it is impossible for the laboring man, one who simply has his muscle, to save anything ; that health is not able to lay anything by for the days of disease—when the man of intelligence and heart sees all this, he is compelled to say that the civilisation of to-day, the religion of to-day, the charity of to-day —no matter how much of good there may be behind them or in them—are failures. A few years ago people were satisfied when the minister said : “ All this will be made even in another �8 Tiepairing the Idols. world; a crust-eater here will sit at the head of the banquet there, and the king here will beg for the crumbs that fall from the table there.” When this was said the poor man hoped and the king laughed. A few years ago the Church said to the slave : “ You will be free in another world and your freedom will be made glorious by the perpetual spectacle of your master in hell.” But the people—that is, many of the people —are no longer deceived by what once were considered fine phrases. They have suffered so much that they no longer wish to see others suffer, and no longer think of the suffering of others as a source of joy to themselves. The poor see that the eternal starvation of kings and queens in another world will be no compensation for what they have suffered here. The old religions appear vulgar, and the ideas of rewards and punishments are only such as would satisfy a cannibal chief or one of his favorites. Do you think the Christian religion has xvorld better1 ? made the For many centuries there has been preached and taught in an almost infinite number of ways a super natural religion. During all this time the world has been in the care of the infinite, and yet every imaginable vice has flourished, every imaginable pang has been suffered, and every injustice has been done. During all these years the priests have enslaved the minds and the kings the bodies of men. The priests did what they did in the name of God, and the kings appealed to the same source of authority. Man suffered as long as he could. Revolution, reformation, was simply a reaction, a cry from the poor wretch that was �Repairing the Idols. 9 between the upper and the nether millstone. The liberty of man has increased just in the proportion that the authority of the gods has decreased. In other words the wants of man, instead of the wishes of God, have, inaugurated what we call progress, and there is this difference : Theology is based upon the narrowest and intensest form of selfishness. Of course, the theologian knows, the Christian knows, that he can do nothing for God; consequently all that he does must be and is for himself, his object being to win the approbation of this God, to the end that he may become a favorite. On the other side, men touched not only by theii’ owfl misf ortunes but by the misfortunes of others are moved not simply by selfishness but by a splendid sympathy with their fellow men. “ Christianity certainly fosters charity’’ the reporter suggested. Nothing is more cruel than orthodox theology, nothing more heartless than a charitable institution. For instance, in England, think for a moment of the manner in which charities are distributed, the way in which the crust is flung at Lazarus. If that parable could be now retold, the dogs would bite him. The same is true in this country. The institution has nothing but contempt for the one it relieves. The people in charge regard the pauper as one who has wrecked himself. They feel very much as a man would feel rescuing from the water some hare-brained wretch who had endeavored to s wim the rapids of Niagara—the moment they reach him they begin to upbraid him for being such a fool. This course makes charity a hypocrite, with every pauper for its enemy. �10 Repairing the Idols. Mrs. Ward compelled Robert Elsmere to perceive, in some slight degree, the failure of Christianity to do away with vice and suffering, with poverty and crime. We know that the rich care but little for the poor. No matter how religious the rich may be, the sufferings of their fellows have but little effect upon them. We are also beginning to see that what is called charity will never redeem this world. The poor man willing to work, eager to maintain his independence, knows that there is something higher than charity—that is to say, justice. He finds that many years before he was born his coufltry was divided out between certain suc cessful robbers, flatterers, cringers, and crawlers, and that in consequence of such division not only himself but a large majority of his fellow men are tenants, renters, occupying the surface of the earth only at the pleasure of others. He finds, too, that these people who have done nothing and who do nothing have every thing, and that those who do everything have but little. He finds that idleness has the money and that the toilers are compelled to bow to the idlers. He finds also that the young men of genius are bribed by social distinctions—unconsciously it may be, but still bribed in a thousand ways. He finds that the church is a kind of waste-basket into which are thrown the younger sons of titled idleness. Do you consider that society in general has been made better by religious influence ? Society is corrupted because the laurels, the titles, are in the keeping and within the gift of the corrupters. Christianity is not an enemy of this system it is in �Repairing the Idols. 11 harmony with it. Christianity reveals to us a universe presided over by an infinite autocrat—a universe with out republicanism, without democracy—a universe where all power comes from one and the same source, and where everyone using authority is account able, not to the people, but to this supposed source of authority. Kings reign by divine right. Priests are ordained in a divinely-appointed way—they do not get their office from man. Man is their servant, not their master. ' In the story of Robert Elsmere all there is of Chris tianity is left after an excision of the miraculous« Theism remains, and the idea of a protecting provi dence is left, together with a belief in the immeasurable superiority of Jesus Christ. That is to say, the miracles are discarded for lack of evidence; not on the ground that they are impossible, not on the ground that they impeach and deny the integrity of cause and effect, not on the ground that they contradict the selfevident proposition that an effect must have an efficient cause, but like the Scotch verdict: 44 Not proven.’ It is an effort to save and keep in repair the dungeons of the Inquisition for the sake of the beauty of the vines that have overrun them. Many people imagine that falsehoods may become respectable on account of age, that a certain reverence goes with antiquity, and that if a mistake is covered with the moss of senti ment, it is altogether more credible than a parvenu fact. They endeavor to introduce the idea of aris tocracy into the world of thought, believing, and honestly believing that a falsehood long believed is far superior to a truth that is generally denied. �12 Repairing the Idols. If Robert Elsmere's views were commonly adopted, what would be the effect ? The new religion of Elsmere is, after all, only a system of outdoor relief, an effort to get successful piracy to give up^larger percentage for the relief of its victims. The aoolition of the system is not dreamed of. A civilised minority could not by any possibility be happy while a majority of the world were miserable; a civilised majority could not be happy while a minority were miserable. As a matter of fact, a civilised world could not be happy while one man was really miserable. At the foundation of civilisation is justice—that is to say, the giving of an equal opportunity to all the chil dren of men. Secondly, there can be no civilisation in the highest sense until sympathy becomes universal. We must have a new definition for success. We must have new ideals. The man who succeeds in amassing wealth, who gathers money for himself, is not a success. It is an exceedingly low ambition to be rich, to excite the envy of others, or for the sake of the vulgar power it gives to triumph over others. Such men are failures. So the man who wins fame, position, power, and wins these for the sake of himself, and wields this power not for the elevation of his fellow men, but simply to con trol, is a miserable failure: He may dispense thousands or millions in charity, and his charity may he prompted by the meanest part of his nature—using it simply as a bait to catch more fish, and to prevent the rising tide of indignation that might overwhelm him. Men who steal millions and then give a small percentage to the Lord to gain the praise of the clergy, and to bring the �Repairing the Idols. 13 salvation of their souls within the possibilities of im agination, are all failures. Robert Elsemere gains our affection and our applause to the extent that he gives up what are known as orthodox views, and his wife Catharine retains our respect in the proportion that she lives the doctrine that Elsmere preaches. By doing what she believes to be right, she gains our forgiveness for her creed. One is astonished that she can be as good as she is, believing as she does. The utmost stretch of her intellectual charity is to allow the old wine to be put in a new bottle, and yet she regrets the absence of the old bottle —she really believes that the bottle is the important thing -that the wine is but a secondary consideration. She misses the label, and not having perfect confidence in her own taste, she does not feel quite sure that the wine is genuine. What, on the whole, is your judgment of the hook ? I think the book conservative. It is an effort to save something—a few shreds and patches and raveilings— from the wreck. Theism is difficult to maintain. Why should we expect an infinite being to do better in an other world than he has done and is doing in this ? If he allows the innocent to suffer here, why not there ? If he allows rascality to succeed in this world, why not in the next? To believe in God and to deny his personality is an exceedingly vague foundation for a consolation. If you insist on his personality and power, then it is impossible to account for what happens. Why should an infinite God allow some of his children to enslave others ? Why should he allow a child of �14 Repairing the Idols. his to burn another child of his, under the impression that such a sacrifice was pleasing to him ? Unitarianism lacks, the motive power. Orthodox people who insist that nearly everybody is going, ty .hell, and that it is their duty to do what little, they, can-to save their souls, have what you might call a spur to action. We can imagine a philanthropic man engaged in the business of throwing ropes to persons about to go over the falls of Niagara, but we can hardly think of his carrying on the business after becoming con vinced that there are no falls, or that people go oyer them in perfect safety. In this country the question has come up whether all the heathen are bound to be damned unless they believe in the Gospel. Many admit that the heathen will be saved if they are good people, and that they will not be damned for not believing something that they never heard. The really orthodox people—that is to say, the missionaries— instantly see that this doctrine destroys their business. 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Certes, nous nous plaisons a reconnaitre, en litterature, la puissance de la forme et l’influence qu’elle exerce sur le jugement; mais il est certain que l’admiration persistante qui s’attache aux maitres du grand siecle, a une cause encore plus elevee9 et qu’ici, le style, si parfait qu’il soit, ne vient cependant qu’en seconde ligne. En effet, dans les ouvrages de l’esprit, au-dessus de la phrase, il y a l’idee, la vefite, 1’application pratique, la portee morale, et c’est la surtout ce qui fait la force de nos classiques. Ils s’attachent tous a quelque grand principe; ils combattent tous pour la meme cause, et ce qui caracterise l’ensemble de leurs oeuvres, c’est Runite d’inspiration, Runite de but, et la ressemblance dans la variete. Ces grands esprits ont ete, dans ces dernieres annees, l’objet de nombreuses et fortes etudes; ils ont attire a eux, par une sorte de sympathie mysterieuse, les ecrivains qui sont 1’honneur de notre temps, et si nous venons en parler apres tant d’autres, ce n’est pas que nous ayons la pretention de les mieux apprecier, de les faire mieux connaitre, ou de rectifier les jugements que nos conlemporains en ont portes. Nous voulons seulement les rapprocher les uns des autres pour chercher le lien qui les rattache entre eux, indiquer le but qu’ils ont a leur insu poursuivi d’un commun accord, et montrer dans cette unite un des plus curieux caracteres du dix-septieme siecle. Dans un sujet aussi vaste nous ne pouvons qu’indiquer quelques traits generaux, et parmi ces morts glorieux choisir les plus glorieux et les plus grands. I Commencons par Bossuet. �DE L’IjNITE LITTERAIRE AU XVII® si&CLE. 12£ I A part 1’Imitation de Jesus-Christy tous les livres catholiques du moyen age, composes par des pretres ou par des moines, s’adressent particulierement au clerge, et restent enfermes dans le cloitre ou dans l’ecole. Latheologie, dedaigneuse de la forme et de Fart, estcompletement separee de la litterature. Au dix-septieme siecle, au contraire, la litterature et la theologie se confondent, et celle-ci, Vivante et pratique, emprunte a l’eloquence sa force et son eclat pour agir sur la societe laique,. C’est par Bossuet que s’accomplit cette alliance. Controversiste, historien, predicateur, philosophe, Bossuet s’attache sans cesse a la meme pensee, qui est de montrer partout Faction incessante de Dieu dans les affaires humaines; Le plus beau de seslivres, le Discours sur Ihistoire universelie n’est rien autre chose, il n’est pas besoin de le rappeler, que la theorie du gouvernement temporel de la Providence, l’explication de la politique divine dans l’histoire. Pour rendre cette theorie, plus saisissante, Bossuet la transporte au sein meme du paganisme, Foppose au dogme antique de’la fatalite et detrone le hasard. Dieu regne «et tient les fils dans ses mains... » Or, depuis la Venue du Christ; le gouvernement de Dieu a pris, par l’Eglise catholique, une forme sensible sur la terre. Ce sera done a la defense de l’figlise que Bossuet consacrera toute Fardeur de sa controverse. Il traitera d’abord de sa doctrine; puis il la montrera toujours immuable, toujours inflexible, perpetuant cette doctrine a travers les ages, ne changeant jamais, parce qu’elle s’appuie sur celui qui ne change pas : de la le magnifique sermon sur Wunite de I’Eglise; et comme tout s’enchaine, dans ce systeme, avec une logique irresistible, Bossuet part de cette unite, pour jeler au protestantisme le deli superbe qu’on appelle VHistolre des varia tions. Apres avoir fait la part de Dieu et de l’liiglise dans lestrois ouvrages dontnous venons de parler, l’eveque de Meaux redescend vers l’homme, et lui trace ses devoirs a l’egard du Createur et de ses semblables. Il lui demande, avec la phifosophie antique, de s’etudier soi-meme, avec la philosophic chretienne, de s’elever par la raison jusqu’a son auteur. De la, le Traite de la connaissance de Dieu et de soi-meme, science supreme, de laquelle decoulent toutes les notions du juste et de l’injuste, du mal et du bien, et par cela meme le dogme de la responsa- �126 . DE L’UNITE LITTERAIRE bilite; maispourque Fhommesoitresponsable,il fautqu’il soil libre* Bossuet etablira done cette liberte dans un traits nouveau, qu’on peut considerer comme l’un des livres les plus profonds qui aient ete ecrits pour concilierla toute-puissance divine etl’ in de pen dance de lavolonte humaine. Comme saint Thomas, l’eveque de Meaux a donne, en touchant a ces mysteres, une veritable somme de la doctrine catholique, et ses autres oeuvres ne sont que le developpement de cette doctrine dans ses rapports avec la vie de chaque jour et les classes les plus diverses de la societe. C’est par F&criture sainte qu’il enseigne, aux rois l’artde regner; c’est par le catechisme du diocese de Meaux, qui deviendra apres un siecle le catechisme de la France, qu’il apprend aux pauvres a bien vivre« Ses sermons, trop peu conaus, sont comme une lutta obstinee et incessante contre les instincts pervers de notre nature, et suivant le mot heureux de madame de Sevigne, il se bat a outrance avec son auditor?e^ pour l’attendrir, l’effrayer et le convaincre. L’oraison funebre est pour lui comme le dernier mot de cet enseignemeni de la chaire, etquand il a epuise la theologie et l’eloquence y il s’adresse a la mort qui repond : Dieu seal est grand. On pourrait croire qu’en proclamant ainsile neant de l’homme, le neant de sa gloire et de sa puissance, en face des cercueils de Conde et de madame Henriette, Bossuet va. perdre de vue les interets, les preoccupations, les soins du monde et de la vie de chaque jour. Ces interets, au contraire, lui sont toujours presents et familiers; la disci-' pline interieure d’une abbaye, la direction de conscience de quelques humbles religieuses,. les details de Fadministration de son diocese,. Foccupent a l’egal de la theodicee. Il regie tout, il definit tout aven la meme'rigueur de raison, la meme clarte, la meme eloquence, et son oeuvre,, dans ses diverses parties^ n’est en definitive qu’un enseignement continue! qui embrasse 1’ensemble des verites divines et humaines. C’est la ce qui en fait la force et la duree, car s’il regne. par l’autorite de la doctrine sur la conscience de ceux qui croient, il regne aussi sur Fame de ceux qui doutent par l’autorite de la, morale,. Theologien, philosophe, moraliste comme Bossuet, Fenelon suit une route exactement semblable. Le Traite de I’existence de Dieu est le pendant du Traite de la connaissance de Dieu et de soi-meme. IdExamen de conscience d’un roi est la contre-partie de la Politique' tiree de I'Ecriture sainte. hs Telemaque est destine a l’education �AU XVIIe SI&CLE. 127 dn due de Bourgogne, comme le Discours sur Ihistoire universelle a l’education du Dauphin. Mais tout en s’occupant des princes, l’archeveque de Cambrai, comme l’eveque de Meaux, se souvient de ceux qui vivent de la vie simple et commune; il sait que, dans les families, ? c’est rhonneur de la mere qui fait, l’honneur de l’enfant, la joie do l’epoux, qui est le soutien du travail; et pour preparer la femme au I role sacre de la materriite, il ecrit son. admirable Traite de I education des piles. C’est toujours une pensee essentiellement pratique, uno pensee d’enseignement qui domine. Sa theorie de- l’education contient le programme de la maison de Saint-Cy®. Compose pour les enfants des rbis, le Telemaque, predication chMetienne encadree dans uii roman pai'en, est devenu le livre de nos ecoles. Pension poursuit, le meme hut que Bossuet: le perfeetionnement moral de 1’homme. Un seul » point separe ces-grands esprits : Bossuet maintient dans. sa. rigueur l’inflexible autorite de la traditionc’est I’homme du passe, le der nier des Peres. Fenelon, c’est l’homme de Tavenir, I’apdtre de la tolerance moderne; il a te vague pressentiment des grandes reformes qui doivent bientot s’accomplir dans la societe francaise, et Louis XIV le traite presqu’en ennemi,. en brulant les manuscrits qu’il avait laisses entre les mains du due de Bourgogne, comme si le grand roi avait devine, dans i’utopie de Salente, un indice precurseur de cette revolution qui devait renverser sa. race. Par les Provinciates et les Pensees, Pascal se rattache directement a la meme tradition. Dans le premier de ces livres, la dispute sur cette tenebreuse question de la Grace qui remonte a Pelage,, n’est qu’uh incident du combat engage entre les disciples de Jansenius et les disciples de Molina; mais ce qui domine, ce qui fait la force et l’imperissable autorite du livre, c’est la polemique contre les relachements de la morale. Quelle que soit Fopinion qu’on ait sur un ordre celebre,il n’en est pas moinsvrai que les maximes des casuistes sur les restrictions menta-lcs-, les banqueroutes JThomicide , le pro-? babilisme, installaient, suivant l’heureuse expression de M... Sainte, Beuve, le machiavelisme a 1’ombre de la croix. Ces maximes met|taient en peril la morale divine et la morale sociale, et le danger etait d’autant plus grand qu’elles partaient d’un ordre qua avait ete le plus ferme soutien de Dunite catholique. Pascal decouvrit d’un coup d’ceil toute la profondeur du mal. Entrains par son indi gnation. d’honnete homme, il defendit les droits de. la consciencecontre les sophismes d’une theologie corrompue; et en refutant �128 DE L’UNITfi LITT&RAIRE Escobar, Vasquez et Caramuel, il a ramene la morale a la source divine. Dans les Pensees, Pascal s’eleve a une hauteur qui trouble et qui confond. L’eloquence et la poesie debordent comme des torrents a chaque page de ce livre, ruine immortelle d’un monument a peine ebauche; mais ici encore le but est essentiellement pratique: l’homme ne sait ni d’ou il vient, ni ou il va; il est dans un doute ter-l rible de toutes choses; il sait qu’il doit mourir, mais ce qu’il ignore le plus, c’est cette mort meme qu’il ne saurait eviter. Peut-il rester dans cette ignorance? non, car du moment ou il s’est considere soimenie, il n’a plus de repos qu’il n’ait trouve le secret de son etre. — Eh bien! lui dit Pascal, cherchons ensemble; etudions cet etat plein de misere, de souffrance, de tenebres qu’on appelle la vie. — Quelle etude et quel tableau! toutes les grandeurs, toutes les fai-l blesses sont mises a nu dans une incomparable analyse; et quand 1’homme effraye de lui-meme, et perdu dans sa propre pensee, se demande quel est le mot de ce mystere, Pascal lui repond : — Qui demelera cet embrouillement? sera-ce la raison? non, car elle flotte, depuis que le monde dure, entre le pyrrhonisme et le dogmatisme, et l’on ne peut etre pyrrhonien sans etouffer la nature, ni dogmatiste sans etouffer la raison. Sera-ce la philosophie? non, car elle voit chacune de ses affirmations detruite par une affirmation contraired — Quelques pas encore, et l’homme est englouti dans les abimes du scepticisme. Mais Pascal s’arrete, car il ne l’a conduit jusque-la que pour lui reveler l’enigme de sa destinee par le tableau de sa faiblesse et de sa grandeur et les etonnantes contradictions de sa nature. Cette enigme, la religion peut seule en donner le mot. Mais quelle reli gion choisir entre celles qui se partagent le monde? Celle qui portera dans son histoire le temoignage d’une revelation divine; ce temoignage, Pascal le decouvre dans le christianisme, a travers les obscurites du dogme, les propheties et les miracles, et, la Bible et l’Evangile a la main, il nous conduit jusqu’au pied du Calvaire, ou l’homme apprend a connaitre Dieu par le Christ, et par le Christ a se connaitre soi-meme. Pascal, on le voit, touche d’un cote a Fenelon et a Bossuet, et de l’autre a Descartes, a Malebranche, a Nicole; il cherche avec les philosophes, il croit avec les theologiens; et comme tous les penseurs de son siecle, il marche en s’eclairant des lumieres de la raison et des lumieres de la foi. �AU XVII* SIfiCLE. H 129 II La Bruyere et La Rochefoucauld completent, comme observateurs et comme moralistes, Fecole philosophique du dix-septieme siecle. Homme du monde et homme de cour, La Rochefoucauld semble prefer main-forte aux theologiens en comhattant plus particulierement les vices que ceux-ci attaquent avec le plus: de force et de vivacite. On a pu, avec raison, accuser La Rochefoucauld d’avbir calomnie la nature humaine en ramenant a l’egoisme le mobile de toutes nos actions; mais il faut tenir compte de la- sphere dans laquelle il a vecu, et qui. est justement celle ou la personnalite se developpe avec le plus de force. Mele aux troubles de la Fronde, il avait vu Finteret general constamment sacrifie a Finteret particulier^le devoir a l’ambition. Il etait done naturel qu’il fit passer dans son’ oeuvre■•les observations qu’il avait puisees dans le spectacle des evenements. Sans doute, il a trop generalise, en le presentant comme exclusif; un sentiment ou ,plutdt un vice qui, pour We fort commtm', admet ceperiWmt encore de nombreuses exceptions'; mais il n’en a pas moiiis rendu un grand service a la philosophic morale; car il'a mis a nu'les plus secretes manoeuvres de l’egoisme, et Fon peut en quelques points le comparer a Machiavel, qui, en tracant dans le livre du Prince la theorie exageree du succes a tout prix et le code de F Ambition, a dechire tous les voiles de l’imposture politique. Enfin, il nous semb'le que les Maximes de La Rochefoucauld et Traite de la concupiscences Bossuet se touchent par une infinite de cotes, etqueces livres ne sont tous deux qu’une sorte de casuistique, Tune; mOndaine, l’autre religieuse, ou l’homme apprend a se defendre* centre' cet amour du moi qui trouble sa raison, endurcit son coeur et l’egare eiU le flattant. Moins profond peut-etre que La Rochefoucauld, mais moins exclu sif, La Bruyere est sans cOntredit l’un de nos ecrivains dont les oeuvres sont le plus lues et le plus goutees. Contemplateur comme Moliere, il a porte, comme lui, l’eloquence dans la raillerie, et par le meme sentiment d’honnetete, il a fait de la satire une ecole de sagesse. Sa critique morale est essentiellement - classique, e’est-a-dire qu’elle est basee sur cette raison conforme a la verite qui survit a toqtes les variations de l’opinion. Observateur plein de finesse, il saisit les nuances les plus fugitives; il ne generalise pas les exceptions, il individualise au contraire les generalites, et c’est la ce qui donne a Tome III. — 9e Livraison. 9 �no DE L’UNITfi LITT&RAIRE ses portraits une realite si saisissante. Les types qu’il a crees sont si vivants, qu’au moment ou son livre parut, le public mit un nom audessous de chaque portrait, car chacun croyait reconnaitre les hommes que le grand peintre avail fait poser devant lui; mais. quand ces hommes eurent disparu, les portraits recurent des noms. nouveaux,, et la ressemblance resta tout aussi frappante, O-n vit aloes, qu’il s’agis— sail, non pas de quelques hommes, mais de tons les hommes, non pas de Versailles ou de Paris ,; mais. du monde. Les aeteurs etaient changes,mais ceux qui. les remplacaientjouaient toujours les memes* roles* Quand on pareourt.ee livre des G3z,«^m,;quipromene le lecteur avec un. apparent desordre a teavers le monde et la vie, on ne saisit pas toujpurs ridee generalc quirelie ces fragments entre. eux; rnais le lien et le but definitif ne sauraient echapper a. une lecture atten tive. La Bruyere,d’ailleurs, dans la Preface du discours a Acade mic francaise,a pris soind’indiquer l’ensemble de* son plan. Il dresse d’abord I’inventaire de nos ridicules et de nos vices; et, quand il a montre le pen que nous sommes,, le? peu. que valent les bieus de la fortune, les illusions de la grandeur et eelle&de 1’amour-propre, combien nos jugements sont incertains, nos passions mesquines, nos agi tations sterilespour le bonheur,il se detourne tout a coup de nos. Tniq^yeg joAMy comme; il le dit< jusqudDieu d tracers le del et les «^m,et couronner son etincelante. satire par la belle con clusion. qui a pour titre Les. esprits forts* G’est dans ce chapitre qu’estle secret de son livre * etce secret qui en fait l’unite se revels.dans cette phrase » Lieu se decouvre et I ordre est retab-li^ Nous nous trompons peut-etre, mais il. nous semble qu’entre les* Pense.es. de Pascal et les, Caraeteres il existe. une analogie incontes—• table. Pour donner un sens aux aspirations de notre aine, pour exp-11quer. la vie et conclure a la necessity du dogme chretien, Pascal met rhomme en presence du mystere de sa grandeur et du mystere de son neant. Pour demontrer lanecessite de la morale chretienne,, La Bruyere.met rhomme en presence de ses vices et de ses faiblesses, et tandis que Pascal nous ramene a Dieu par I’enignae. de notre desti— nee r Bossuet par I’histoire,. Fenelon par le miracle permanent, du. mondeLa Bruyere nous- y ramene a son tour par le tableau de nos moeurs. -i.:.... t! , �AEFXVIF* SIEGLE. ’ 13i in Ce ne sont pas settlement les theologiens, les philosophes, les moralistesqui prennent, an. dix-septieme siecle, ee pole pratique d’educateurs que nous venons de signaler; les poetes marchent dans la meme voie, et le lien qui les unit aux prosateurs les reunit encore entre eux, soit qu’ik embrassent, comme Corneille, Racine etBoileau, les fortes croyances de leur temps, soil qu’ils s’en separent; comme Moliere ei La Fontaine, pour parler uniquement au nom de la raison, et remonter par les fibres penseurs, de la reforme et la veine railleuse et sceptique du moyen age, jusqu’a la philosophie antique. Ce qui frappe (Tabard quand on eompiare Corneille et Racine, c’est la conformite de leur foi ehretienne, de cette foi sincere et profonde qui s humilie et ne discute pas, Corneille lit.' chaque jour le Breviaire romain, comme Racine en traduit les hymnes. Il met en vers, par esprit de penitence, Vlimtation de Jesus—Christ> et par esprit de ■penitence Racine renonce au theatre. De la les chefs-d’oeuvre Chre tiens t. Polyeucte, Athalie, Esther; de la aussi ee grand sentiment du devoir, qui eleve et ennoblit la peinture des passions. On a dit que letheatre de Corneille etaitune ecole de grandeur; le mot est juste, mais c’est aussi Tecole du sacrifice et du dqvouement. Voyez le Cid I Le poete, dans Texamen de cette piece, donne d’un seul mot toute sa theorie ; —- Chimene et Rodrigue suivent le devoir, sans rien relacher de la passion, — voila le ressort dramatique; — le devoir triomphe, — voila la sanction morale. Le caractere du vieil Horace nous offre une donnee semblahle. A Rome, la patrie est divinisee; T amour du pays s’eleve a la hauteur d’une foi religieuse, et demine par cela mdme tons lea autres senti ments. Horace sacrifiera done sa tendresse de pere. a sa foi de Ro main, et Corneille choisira ce sujet, pour montrer T abnegation dans toute son energie sauvage. Le meme ressort. dramatique se retrouve dans Pulyeucte. Lapassiondans.ee qu’elle a de plus noble et de plus pur est aux prises avec l’amour divin, et Polyeucte s’immole aDieux comme le pere des Horaces s’immolait a Rome. Tous les nobles sentiments, tous ceux qui touchent a l’heroisme qu le provoquent, sont tour a tour evoques par Corneille. Dans Cinnaz Auguste personnifie la clemence, et ce vers'celebre : Je suis maitre de moi comme de 1’univers, �132 DE I/UNITfi LITTfiRAIRE nous montre que, si haut que nous eleve notre destinee, les plus belles victoires sont celles que nous remportons sur nous-memes. Dans la Mort de Pompee, Cesar punit par la colere et le mepris l’assassinat qui sert sa fortune, et Cornelie, faisant taire une haine aussi profonde que ses regrets, se jette au-devant du coup qui menace le vainqueur de Pharsale. Les enseignements les plus genereux de l’histoire semblent se resumer dans les tragedies de Corneille, et jamais la poesie n’a propose l’exemple des grandes choses dans un plus magnifique langage. Plus tempera que Fauteur de Polyeucte^ et toujours plus pres des realites de la vie commune, Racine nous attendrit et nous eclaire sur nous-memes par la peinture fidele et charmante de nos troubles interieurs. Nous entendons dans ses vers comme un echo des orages qui grondent en nous; mais le devoir est toujours en lutte avec la pas sion, et quand la passion triomphe, le poete ne manque jamais de l’humilier par le remords. Ses tragedies, comme celles de Corneille, ne sont en definitive que l’eloquente apologie de tous les nobles in stincts. Monime, Iphigenie, ne sont-elles pas les soeurs paiennes de Pauline? Alexandre, vainqueur de Porus, lui rendant son royaume, n’est-il pas, en fait de generosite, le rival d’Auguste pardonnant a Cinna, le rival de Cesar pleurant Pompee? Esther ne representet-elle pas le patriotisme juif, comme Horace le patriotisme romain? Andromaque, Clytemnestre ne sont-elles pas le plus parfait modele de l’amour maternel, l’ideal de la tendresse antique complete par la tendresse chretienne, comme Britannicus est le type acheve des vertus et des graces de F adolescence? Le culte de la beaute morale a meme ete porte si loin par Racine qu’il brise quelquefois entre ses mains l’instrument tragique; et c’est ainsi que ce grand poete a ete accuse d’avoir affaibli, dans Andromaque et dans Britannicus, l’un des ressorts les plus puissants du drame, la terreur, en attenuant la ferocite de Pyrrhus, et l’ambitieuse et lascive cruaute d’Agrippine. La cri tique est juste, mais ces infidelites faites a l’histoire ne sont qu’un hommage rendu par le poete a l’ideal qu’il poursuivait sans cesse; et s’il adoucit ces personnages sombres et terribles qui se debattent contre la fatalite, c’est qu’il regarde toujours le monde antique des hauteurs du christianisme. Moins grand que Corneille et Racine, moins grand que La Fontaine et Moliere, Boileau occupe cependant encore a cote d’eux un rang eminent, et jamais ecrivain n’a rendu aux lettres de plus signales ser- �.A AU XVIIe SIECLE. z 133 vices. Il a defendu le veritable talent contre la mediocrite vaniteuse; et c’est la pour lui un eternel honneur, car il faut une grande generosite d’esprit, quand soi-meme on poursuit la gloire, pour s’elever au-dessus du denigrement et rendre justice a des rivaux et a des maitres. Il a montre par le precepte et par l’exemple que la verite est la source des belles inspirations, et que pour bien ecrire, il faut bien penser. Il a porte dans la litterature la fierte de l’honnetete et la fierte du bon sens. Il s’est declare l’adversaire impitoyable du mauvais gout et des sentiments faux, et par cela meme il a sauvegarde la morale publique, car les sentiments faux, en egarant les esprits, degradent les caracteres et entrainent la ruine des societes. Boileau est de la famille de La Bruyere; il a sonde comme lui la profondeur de la sottise humaine, et ses satires sont comme un echo fidele des sarcasmes et des lecons que les railleurs de tous les ages ont adresses a la triste posterity d’Adam. On a pu quelquefois contester sa verve; on n’a jamais conteste sa raison, et il ne se rencontre pas dans toutes ses oeuvres un seul precepte que l’on puisse dementir au nom de l’experience, une seule maxime litteraire que l’ori puisse recuser au nom du gout. IV Par son caractere exclusivement philosophiquev Moliere occupe, ainsi que La Fontaine, une place distincte parmi les ecrivains de son temps, mais tout en suivant une route differente, il tend encore au meme but et marche toujours aupres d’eux. Seulement, tandis que Bossuet, Pascal et Fenelon, cherchent dans la foi catholique la regie absolue de la vie, tandis que La Bruyere s’efforce de nous ramener a Dieu par le tableau de nos moeurs, Moliere reste sur la terre, n’invoque que la raison, et demande l’art de vivre avec sagesse et droiture, selon le monde et. selon la sagesse humaine, au monde luimeme, a l’experience, a l’observation de ce qui se passe chaque jour sous nos yeux. Les personnages qu’il fait agir et parler ne sont que l’incarnation vivante de nos defauts, de nos ridicules, de nos passions, et meme de nos qUalites, car Moliere ne se borne pas, comme la plupart des auteurs comiques, a representer L’homme sous ses aspects affligeants : il sait qu’entre les fripons et les dupes, entre les me diants et les sots, il y a les honnetes gens, qui nq sont apres tout que les gens senses, et pour que le tableau soit complet, il met aussi les honnetes gens sur la scene. �134 DE L’UNIT-E LITTERAIRE Nous l’avons dit dans une autre etude : quand on analyse ses personnages, on trouve dans la somme totale des caracteres qu’il a crees, le miroir exact et fidele du monde. D’un cote les defauts et les ridi cules : — l’avarice, dans Harpagon; la sottise et la vanite du parvenu., dans M. Jourdain; la vanite de la naissance, dans M. de Sottenviiie; la vanite litteraire, dans Trissotin; regoisme profond, dans Arnolphe; legoisme et la pusillaaaimite,dans Argan.; les pretentions de l’ignorance et Fexaltation des sentiments faux, dans Belise, Armande et Philaminte; la faihlesse et 1’irresolutian, dans -Georges Dandin; la jalousie, dans Sganarelle ; la secheresse du coeur et la coquetterie, dans Celimene; la sceleraiesse doublee d’hypocrisie, dans lartufe; 1’audacieuse forfanteriedu vice, dans don Juan.—De l’autre cote, les qualites* — dans Alceste, la douloureuse susceptibilite de 1’ bonne or; dans Henriette , la grace de la maison et lasamplicite charmante; dans Elin ire, i’honnetete;; dans Philinte, la probite indulgente etsereine; dans Chrysale, Eesprit de conduife et la fermete du bon sens. Pris dans son ensemble, le theatre de Moliere est done une ecole de verite, ou chacun apprend a cormaitrc lesautres et a se reconnaitre soi-meme; car en tracant le portrait de ses contemporains, ce contemplateur, ainsi que l’appelait Boileau, a peint comme La Bruyere les hommes de tous les ages. Il enseigne le bon sens, comme Corneille enseigne le devouement et Pheroisme; 11 attaque, dans lartufe, l’hy-i pocrisie de lapiete, comme Pascal, dans les -P^ovindales, attaque I’hypocrisie de la morale. LesEemmes savantes sont le commentaire anticipe, profane .et mondam, du Traite deldiducation des files et des Lettres de madame de Maintenon sur le meme sujet , comme VEcole des femmes est la mise en scene de la satire de Boileau et des raille ries de La Bruyere. Moliere resume, dans les types qu’il cree et qn’H fait vivre, l’observation morale de tous les siedes, la profonde casuistique de .Bossuet et les pemtures ienergiques de Saint-Simon , et quand Louis XIV demandait a -Boileau quel etait le plus grand des ecrivains de son re gne, .Boileau pouvaii repondre, sans crainte d'etre dementi par la posterite: <« Sire, c’est Moliere,.» parce que Moliare c’est ■ la verite <et la vie elle-meme. ’ > Cette verite, nous la retrouvons dans La’Fontaine, aussi saisis•sante ^t aussi profonde. Le fabuliste., comme d’auteur de Tartufe, fait agir et parlersesacteursavecam sentiment si parfait de la reality qu’on sent a chaque vers qu’ils ne peuvent ni agir ni parier.autrement. Comme Moliere, il est l’irreconciliable ennemi de la vanite* �AU XVII® SlfiCLE. 43S de Thypocrisie et de la ruse. Les acteurs sont changes, les caracteres Testent les memes. La grenouille qui cherche a S’egaler au boeuf, Tanequi porte des reliques, le mulet qui se vante de sa genealogie, faites-en des hommes, ils s’appelleront M. de Sottenville et M. Jour dain. Le renard s’appcllera Tartufe, le loup don Juan. La Fontaine combat le charlatanisme des -devins et des faiseurs d’boroscopes, comme Moliere combat le-charlatanisme des empiriques. Il se sertde la verite et de 1’experience pour-nous donner des lemons, et ees lecons s’adressent a tous les temps, a tous les ages, a toutes les conditions, parce quil a complete sa propre sagesse par la sagesse de tous les siecles. Cepai’en, egaredans lasoctetecroyantedudfe-septieme siecle, a le sentiment chretien de la justice et du droit, de Legalite des hommes devant Dieu, au meme degre que Fenelon. L’abus de la force, 1’oppression des faibles, n’ont jamais trouve un plus eloquent adversaire. Aussi, quand la Revolution francaise vint reclamer pour les faibles la meme protection que pour les forts, et suWit&er aux ■caprices du lion la volohte de la Hoi; dle cxhuma les Testes de La Fontaine pour leur rendre des honne’urs supremes, parce qu’elle Teconnaissait en lui rn de -ses precurseurs, et dans ces funcrailles populaires cetait le P&t de terre-qua prenaitsa revanche. . ■Nous A avons point !a pretention d’avoirepuise le. sujet auquel nous avons consacre ees pages, -bien indagnes des grands ’hommes dont nous sommes si justement fiers. Nous avons voulu seulement appeler l’attention sur un point de noire histoire litteraire «qui n’a point ete suffisamment remarque, et montrer, eomme notes l’avons dit plus haut, que si les ecrivains du dix-septieme siecle ont acquis tant de gloire, ce ri’est pas’seutement parce qu’ils forment une ecole de style, mais encore une ecole de sagesse et de grandeur.. Ils sont lous de la meme ‘famiile; la source de I'inspiration est la meme pour tous, et elle se trouve dansces trdis mots que LaBruyere a rapproches pour la premiere fois: LE BEAU, LE VRAI, LE BIEN. Le but qu’ils poursuivent n’est-ce pas, en effet, la recherche de la verite dans l’ordre purement humain , comme dans l’ordre surnaturel, l’etude de Fhomme et la peinture du -monde,, Teducation de Itesprit et l’educa-tiondu coeur? n’est-ce pas la reforme d’une societe ou vivait encore le vieil esprit feodal, avec ses privileges, ses exclusions et ses iniquites? �J36 DE L’lLNITL' LlTTfiRAIRE n’est-ce pas aussi la reforme de la science? Moliere se raillant des medecins qui se payent de mots, et leur demandant le savoir et l’ob4 servation au lieu du pedantisme, n’est-il pas philogophe au meme titre que Descartes combattant les vertus specifiques et les vertus oc-A cultes? La Bruyere, Fenelon, dans leurs Discours a TAcademie francaise, Moliere dans les Femmes savantes et les Precieuses^ Corneille dans les Examens de ses tragedies, ne sont-ils pas des critiques, des maitres de style et de gout au meme titre que Boileau? Les oeuvre&i de ces grands hommes, si* diverses qu’elles soient, s’eclairent et se completent l’une par l’autre, et elles offrent entre elles une harmonie si parfaite qu’elles sont desormais inseparables, comme celles d’un seul et meme auteur. Nous ne pretendons certes pas que les ecrivains du dix-septieme siecle aient marque sans retour l’extreme limite ou l’esprit humain puisse atteindre, et que 1’art, pour s’elever a la veritable beaute, soit condamne fatalement a les imiter; loin de la. Mais si l’imitation est sterile, l’admiration est toujours feconde; et ce qu il importe de maintenir, c’est qu’ils doivent etre pour tous les ages un sujet constant d’etude, parce qu’a travers les transformations de la langue et les changements des moeurs, ils resteront toujours profondement humains, et par cela meme profondement vrais. Cette unite qui distingue leur talent distingue egalement leurs ca racteres. Ilsont tous la meme simplicite, le meme desinteressementl et ils cherchent la perfection pour leurs oeuvres, plutot que la gloire et le bruit pour leur nom. Ce sont des gens de.bon sens et des gens de bien, droits, sinceres, vivant de cette vie commune dont les natures saines et fortes savent seules s’accommoder. Bossuet, qui regne sur l’Eglise de France, s’isole, au milieu de Versailles, de toutes les intrigues de la cour, pour lire la Bible, dans les allees soli taires du pare, en compagnie de La Bruyere et de Fleury. Boileau, qui regne sur les esprits de son temps, n’a point de plus chere dis traction que le jeu de quilles, et toute son ambition se borne a vivre tranquille dans son jardin d’Auteuil. Racine s’amuse a faire des pro cessions avec ses enfants, et sa femme ne sait pas meme les noms de ses pieces. Moliere, a bout de forces et deja mourant, reste au theatre, malgre les prieres de ses amis, pour donner du pain aux acteurs de sa troupe. Corneille, marguillier de l’eglise Saint-Sauveur de Rouen, tient pendant trente ans les comptes de sa paroisse avec la regularity d’un greffier. La Bruyere cache si bien sa vie, qu’elle echappe a notre curiosite, et qu’aucun detail biographique ne vient se placer �AU XVIIe SlfiCLE. 137 entre sa naissance et sa mort. Emprisonne par la souffrance dans la chambre qui le verra mourir, Pascal ne songe pas meme a sauver d’une destruction presque inevitable les pages illisibles de l’un des plus grands livres qu’ait traces la main des hommes, et, comme les saints du moyen age, il meurt sous le cilice, en ne se souvenant que de Dieu. Tous ces grands hommes, en un mot, restent soumis dans ,leur conduite aux regies souveraines qu’ils ont posees dans leurs oeuvres. Ils semblent justifier ce mot si vrai de Boileau: La fierte de l’esprit est le vice des sots, et la fierte du coeur la vertu des honnetes gens. Ils ont le sentiment de leur force, jamais la vanite de leur talent; on les aime, on les respecte autant qu’on les admire, et c’est la le secret de cette popularity qui grandit toujours. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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