8 APRIL 1893, page 21

A New " Life " Of Victor Hugo.*

AT the present time, Victor Hugo is rather out of fashion among the literary leaders of young France. He is too strong, too violent, too noisy—if one may say it, too......

The Blind Artist's Pictures.*

THESE tales are remarkable less for their knowledge of life and the skill with which they sketch it, than for the fresh- nese and originality of • the idealism which is......