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OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE. he could. Then, seated in a corner of the cell in PARIS, October 13, 1865. front of this infantine old man, my attendant told "Tis ill playing with edged tools! To-day I would me the unhappy creature's history. Some forty or tell you the history of an ill-starred pair who set more years ago, there lived in a small town nained out in life with the best, with the most laudable St. Ra young orphan. She was intellectual, intentions, to end their career with weeping and wealthy, beautiful. Every unmarried man of the wailing and gnashing of teeth. They played with province was at her feet, his eye fixed on her foredged tools. Who cannot call to mind a dozen in-tune. She was so flattered, so adulated, so complistances where unhappiness was the fate of people mented, her gorge would rise at night when upon who thought they might play with intellectual going to bed she would think of the sugar forced gifts-bid inspiration descend at the crook of their upon her during the day. At last such was the finger-and lure fame as easily as the falconer does nausea she experienced, she resolved to give her his tassel? The child of genius persuades himself hand and all it contained to a promising young that, if he had but money, he could soar to the mas- man' who would give her in affection and reputaters' pride of flight. He meets a woman who would tion a substantial exchange for the beauty and gladly share her dowry to be borne on such pin- estate she gave him. There was at that time in her ions. They marry. Wrinkles come. Gray hair town a prodigy of eighteen, who had rhymed from appears. He is a child of genius all the days of his infancy-had 'lisped in numbers.' He had his life. Genius will not wear fetters. Besides, already written many a fable, tragedy, sonnet, and children of genius too often shut their eyes to the epic, and the whole province held for firm belief great truth that experience of life is absolutely that he would bloom into a great genius. She marnecessary to give maturity to genius. One might as ried this prodigy that no material obstacle might well expect to use hemp before it has been rotted, delay his progress on the road to fame. She brought as to see the loftiest talents bloom into genius un- him up to Paris, and so planted him in wealth's til they have gone through that fermentation of life hothouse to force him to bear fruit. Strange and called experience. Tears must be shed, blood must inexplicable fatality! unheard-of catastrophe! The be spilled, the cheek must burn with blushes, the poet bore no fruit. He had a charming study; it heart must be wrung, the brain fevered, the soul was nothing but bronze and black marble. He lived depressed to the gates of death-and all this time in most favorable quiet. He knew nothing of the and again before genius blooms. As the nightingale thorns of life. And after all he rhymed as he sings sweetest after its eyes have been torn out, as rhymed when he was fifteen, mere doggerel, fit at the aromatic herbs have no odor until they have best for a confectioner's kisses. He was the best been bruised, so genius must be bowed down to little husband that ever was seen, gentle and timid, earth before it can dream of scaling heaven. There- amiable and laborious. She was the best little wife fore is it that wealth hath stifled more genius than that ever was seen, conciliating and encouraging, poverty; therefore is it that the road to immortality extremely tolerant and of an invariable good hudoes not lie through an heiress's bridal chamber, mor. Nevertheless, by degrees she became nervous but rather through the cheerless garret, bereaved of and irritable. He became ashamed of himself. fire, whose calendar contains more fasts than feasts, Every morning he would lock himself up in his whose wardrobe (a row of nails behind the door) study, write madly, blot quire after quire of paper, has nothing but rags. A hundred demons armed read it over, and in despair confessed 'twas not worth with weapons more formidable than smithy ever the ink 'twas written in. Every evening she would forged, to wit, the world's jeers, the world's con- come, her heart throbbing with anxiety, to see if tempt, the world's scorn, the world's rebuffs, the some good lines had at last made their appearance. world's cruelty, must stand at every avenue leading She would question the poet, who every day hung to the world, and drive one back time and again his head still lower. At last impatience and disuntil out of sheer despair he shrinks into himself dain appeared; she could not long check their outand explores his every fold, his every recess, his break; and she upbraided her husband for defraudevery plait and crease. Then, knowing himself, he ing her, because in return for her beauty and her knoweth all things. Heaven and earth have no money he had not given her genius. secrets hidden from him. To expect this initiation from wealth's partner would be as idle as to ask the Eolian harp, packed in bran, to rival the instrument exposed in the window to the current of winter's air. Forgive me this long preface, but the story I proceed to tell you threw me into so many and such bitter reflections, I have hitherto been un-ments of the damned by the side of the woman he able to recover my self-command.

"Happening to be at Saint M——, a small town in the south of France, I visited the lunatic asylum. I have always been fond of lunatics. I have never met among them a stupid and bad man. I was shown into a tidy cell occupied by a little old man bent over a desk, and writing with his finger on the board with inexpressible rapidity. He rose timidly, twirling his fingers. He was at least sixty years old, but occasionally did not seem to be above fifteen. His white, almost blonde hair fell in childlike curls, and his sweet face, smiling and uneasy, wore the expression of infants when they both weep and laugh at the same time. Nevertheless, one could detect profound grief, trembling agony in his dilated eyes which wore the fixed expression of madness and despair. My attendant made a gesture, and the poor old man resumed his seat with extravagant delight, and began to write as fast as ever

"After this scene matters went from bad to worse. The husband became a child scolded by the wife. He lived in a state of constant uneasiness, eternal shame. He lived blushing and trembling; his heart was wrung by all the tortures of the impotent artist and the insolvent man. He suffered the tor

had robbed (so she said), and whose only sentiment for him now was disdainful pity. So long as that woman had not abandoned all hope of seeing her husband bloom into a genius, she chained him to his writing-desk, and made him write a given number of lines every day before dinner. The unhappy man addressed himself to the task, and daily wrote worse. 'Twas an hourly battle between them of contempt and pain. She laughed disdainfully. He shivered with fear and anguish.

"He had spent $2500 of her money in attempting to become a great poet. This was his galled withers. One morning he refused to do his daily task set him every morning by his wife. He had found in the office of some joint-stock company a copying clerk's place, with a salary of $250, and henceforward he began to pay his debt to his wife. He lived under the same roof with her, but he paid rent for his room, he took his solitary meals in res

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