"young France," the [253] ennui of an immense disillusion. In the
full of irony.html">irony, of disillusion, he distinguishes two books,
characteristic of the first decade of the present century. In those
irony, refined into a plaintive philosophy of "indifference"--in
actual present, a present of disillusion, into a world of strength
Atala--into the free play of them in savage life. It is to minds in
spectacle of beauty.html">beauty and strength, that the works of French
exceptional; and a certain distortion is sometimes noticeable in
something of a terrible grotesque, of the macabre, as the French
execution, as in Gautier's La Morte Amoureuse, or the scene of the
Capitaine Fracasse--true "flowers of the yew." It becomes grim
the incident, with all its ghastly comedy drawn [254] out at length,
Quatre-Vingt-Trieze (perhaps the most terrible of all the accidents
the Convention. Not less surely does it reach a genuine pathos; for
passages of sentiment makes one sympathetic, begetting, as it must,
recesses of other minds; so that pity is another quality of
animals.html">animals, and charming writers about them, and Murger being unrivalled
finely into all situations which appeal to pity, above all, into the
not afraid of the quaintness or singularity of its circumstances or
Victor Hugo does but turn his romanticism into practice, in his
longer wrong children, or animals, for instance, by ignoring in a
romanticists are antinomian, too, sometimes, because the love of
become a little bizarre, plunging into the [255] Middle Age, into the
to ask, wondering at something malign in so much beauty. For over
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