The world: historical and actual . Protestantsand Jews. The present colonial possessions of France areutterly insignificant. They contain a populationof about two and a half millions, but with the excep-tion of two thousand native- of France the colonistsare barbarians, most of them downright savages. Slavery was abolish-ed in all the colo-nies in 1848. There have beensome great authorsin France since Vol-taire, but none ofthose belonging tothis century canclaim the very high-est rank except Vic-tor Hugo. His LeuMistrallies may just-ly be set down asthe greatest novelever written. Itspopularit
The world: historical and actual . Protestantsand Jews. The present colonial possessions of France areutterly insignificant. They contain a populationof about two and a half millions, but with the excep-tion of two thousand native- of France the colonistsare barbarians, most of them downright savages. Slavery was abolish-ed in all the colo-nies in 1848. There have beensome great authorsin France since Vol-taire, but none ofthose belonging tothis century canclaim the very high-est rank except Vic-tor Hugo. His LeuMistrallies may just-ly be set down asthe greatest novelever written. Itspopularity was prodigious and its influence incalcu-lable. Written for the purpose of showing thatknowledge is the great reformatory agency in theworld, it has a strength and vigor of thought almostShakspearean. Dumas, father and son, deserve hon-orable mention, as does •George Sand (MadamDudevant), but their place in literature is not amongthe immortals. Taine and Louis Blanc must be ac-corded exalted praise as critics and that is
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