The death is announced of M. Buloz, the founder and
editor of the most influential periodical in France, or indeed in Europe, the Revue des Deux Mendes. M. Buloz was a Genevese, partially educated, and to the end of his life very rough ; and it is easy to see, from M. About's bitter sketch of him, that he was hated by the literary class, whom he bullied, sneered at, and it is said, when he could, underpaid. According to his biographer, he had no esprit, no manners, and no heart, and it may be true, for they have often been wanting to successful publishers. He must, however, have possessed three considerable faculties. He knew what the edu- cated public of Europe wanted ; he knew whether the work sub- mitted to him would do ; and he knew how to govern, if not how to manage, the most exigeant staff in the world. M. About says he treated them like white slaves, but M. About makes one charge which is almost comically unfair. M. Buloz would not allow articles published in the Revue to be republished in a book form for the benefit of the authors till twelve months had elapsed. Is it, then, a crime to lease copyrights for a year or two?
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