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Sailor reviews The Dragonborn joins the Thieves Guild on her first big heist. Little do they know, they aren't dealing with an ordinary thief. Flames and Feathers by northpeach reviews While Iemitsu may be the decedent of an old family with the Gift of Flames, Nana is also of a line, even older.

The day her husband stands aside to let her daughter be Sealed, like she once was, is the day when she knows her Tsu-chan doesn't have a father anymore. But she doesn't really need one because Hibari Kyoya claims the bird-child as his flock. Seventh child - third story by phoenixgirl26 reviews The third of three stories about what happens when the seventh child of a pureblood family asks for and will be granted anything they want.

Read what Harry Potter does when that seventh child forces him into marriage. HG and Weasley bashing. Now a one shot. Gregory Malfoy by slayer of destiny reviews After the events of the Last Battle Harry makes a visit to Malfoy Manor only to meet the extended members of the Malfoy family, including Lucius's brother Gregory. She also takes proper steps. Crossposted with Ao3 under the same title One Piece - Rated: John Watson has always had the heart of a Gryffindor.

When he is introduced to the world of magic and becomes the guardian of the Boy Who Lived, the heart of the lion becomes more apparent than ever. This is the tale of a broken man and an abused little boy who find in each other the strength and courage to learn to live and love again. Saving the Dragonborn by SaxyGirl reviews The Dragonborn has a bad habit of getting herself in sticky situations and this time is no different. Lucky for her, Farkas is available to save her. DBxUlfric; prequel to Domestic.

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Sometimes even small, seemingly unimportant events can change the course of history forever. And sometimes, meeting a snake can lead to falling in love with your worst enemy. Fate has always had it in for Harry Potter, hasn't it? Forced to live under an assumed name in Skyrim she resigns herself to never seeing her homeland again.

Imagine her surprise when she arrives at Proudspire Manor one evening to discover a piece of Alinor has come to her. Playing with Fire by Araceil reviews Harry notices some oddities to his mind and memories, gaps and misunderstandings and things that just don't add up. When everything is said and done, he goes to a Healer, and learns that Dumbledore's manipulations run a lot deeper than anyone could have imagined.

With his eyes opened, he struggles to control the furious anger after finding all of the lies and hidden agendas. A sudden adoption and unlikely allies work to split him from Dumbledore. With two Lordships and a betrothal, how will the world react to Lord Potter-Black when he refuses to fight in their war? The Demon's Bride by Princess Mew Mew reviews When her parents were killed in an accident murdered , Marianne was forced to run from her pursuers.

She hid in London dressed as a boy to protect her virtue, when one night she stumbles upon Ciel in captivity. Now she works for him under Sebastian, and if that wasn't enough, apparently she's his mate? She is supposedly meant to resist him But does she really want to? The Vow comes into play and needless to say it has consenquences but who for? Severus rescues Harry story. Seeking each other by slayer of destiny reviews It is Bill and Fleur's wedding and everyone is excited.

However Harry is given a little surprise, Viktor Krum is on his way for the wedding, Viktor the man that he has had a crush on, perhaps even loves, but thought he might not see again. Now, perhaps it is the right time for them? That is if Viktor even has feelings for him though. Firebird by NorseFan1 reviews Anastasia Potter was thought to be a squib after an accident in her second year, so her parents pulled her from Hogwarts. She left as soon as she could to America, the curious gold rune that marked her as a soul mate of one of the gods the only thing giving her true hope.

This is the story of when they meet. Unlikeable Potters and Dumbledore. Acedia by Kuroyuki-Kokuyoku reviews Acedia noun: In Latin, it means "without care" or the neglect of to take care of something that one should do. After all…he doesn't give a damn anymore. Tell it to the Marines by Tsume Yuki reviews Because sometimes a tale is too tall not to tell.

Even if no one will ever believe her, this isn't Riskua's first shot at life. It is her first time as the 'big sister' of the nuisance that is Monkey D. A Different Path by slayer of destiny reviews When Peter Pettigrew gets transformed into his human form in the middle of Tranfiguration class Harry's life changes drastically. Sirius is released from prison and wants Harry to live with him, Harry finds a stronger relationship with Seamus that could lead to more, and the path he was walking on is suddenly very very different.

Will be Slash Harry Potter - Rated: So Death, desperate to help his Master and give him some sort of companionship, arranged for Harry to meet another lonely man with an impossibly long lifespan. Thorki Thor - Rated: Twice Blessed Shinobi by Mrs. InsaneOne reviews One man's Greater Good will fall to pieces when his greatest pawn is whisked away as part of the plans his mother set into motion the moment she learned of the dangers her son would face.

A series of stories portraying the lives of Harry, Draco, and Severus as they become a family. Kidfic Harry Potter - Rated: Hashirama couldn't pick a worse person to fall in love with. He was utterly doomed. Third in my Reincarnation Series. Like Souls by slayer of destiny reviews Gibbs meets Ducky's mysterious nephew and spark start flying. They know things aren't going to be easy, but the pull between the two men get stronger and stronger. Could their relationship manage to heal wounds in the other and give them both a brighter future? Rabbit Hearted by pastel. The sound of her little beating heart calls to the beast inside him.

They say that the only time one can be brave is when they are afraid. When the rabbit is dragged into matters much larger than herself, he finds himself fighting desperately to keep her alive. Namikaze reviews Because being Namikaze Minato's younger brother is easier said than done. Especially when you look like a freaking girl. Second chances by slayer of destiny reviews Fate decides to play with Harry's life again, giving him a chance at a family but with the most shocking father.

After the Order lock him up Harry flees to the father where they both may get a second chance. Shinobi Rules by Squishfie reviews Everyone was always taken away from her; her parents, then Sasuke, later Jiraiya, and before long her village and Country. But this time, she was taken away from them.

She is taken back years before the Kyubi attack ever happened where her parents are still alive. She fights for her new friends, her family and her village to change the future for the better. Spirit Fire by sakurademonalchemist reviews Yusuke's fate as thug seems set in stone Now he's friends with a hidden mafia heiress and loving every minute of it.

However there are some things even he wasn't expecting He has no idea the chaos he sets forth because of his new name. Nor the world that he is about to fall into the deep end of. Sky Bunny by sakurademonalchemist reviews A simple mistake while in a rush to get to an interview leads to an unexpected adventure.

Usagi is the shy, easily startled secretary of Seto Kaiba who has a habit of wearing a bunny eared headband, complete with tail. Except not even she was aware of the fact that her past is about to make a big splash in the corporate world! Loki and a Kleptomaniac by FesteringInsanity reviews Loki tries to summon Death to deal with his enemies. It doesn't work out quite like he planned. Always the teacher by Aaska reviews Growing up doesn't mean that Mafuyu have been taught everything she need from her teacher Takaomi.

Will she master her new teachings! As always with my fanfics they hare VERY lemony, so be warned. They are filed as "Mature" for a good reason. As Harry's Divine parent, she blessed him with her death. Now that Voldemort is defeated and Harry is of age, Lily will be able to formally claim him as hers and lead him into a bright future where he attracts the attention of a certain Norse God of Mischief. Loki never saw this storm coming when Harry caught his eye. It Was a Joke: The Foretold Note by Watermelonsmellinfellon reviews Trelawney gives an assignment at the beginning of fifth year.

This leads to the revelation of a power that Harry didn't know he had. A power that no one expected. Least of all the Dark Lord. A power he knew not. Harry decides to change everything with his new book. Being able to shape the future to how you want took a lot of vision. No one could have predicted this. Harry Potter and the Elemental Nations by Clow Angel reviews A summoning gone awry pulls Harry from his ancestral home into the middle of a battle between the Sannin atop giant talking animals.

More than a little confused but soldiering on despite the strange place he now calls reality, Harry goes on to baffle the Elemental Nations with his acts of magic. Orion Zabini Potter by slayer of destiny reviews Harry and Blaise are brought together by events that mean Harry has to flee Hogwarts, feelings develop and Harry's place in the war is in the balance.

Haruno-Potter by BackslashEcho reviews When Harry comes home after his fifth year, still reeling from Sirius' death, only to find that the Dursleys are mistreating yet another child, he decides to take his young cousin Sakura and adopt her himself. Now she has come back to find her own path, but what happens when she meets a certain Mad God and ends up getting engaged to him?

Will he drive her crazy or will she save him from himself? DragonbornxSheogorath Elder Scroll series - Rated: How We Met Your Mother by DeliriumDescending reviews Skull had always done his best to keep his mafia life away from his mother, not because she couldn't handle it but because he wasn't sure the mafia could handle her. All the different ways the Arcobaleno could meet Skull's mother.

The Secret Service - Rated: Thief in the Midnight World by sakurademonalchemist reviews Nana isn't going to let her husband's actions ruin her son's life. Which means it's time to reconnect with her old life Tsuna's destiny is about to get a lot more interesting, while hidden secrets are going to be revealed. Will the mafia be able to handle Phantom Dark, or is the Vongola in for a wake up call?

Heart of the Soul by sakurademonalchemist reviews Mai isn't a typical school girl. After a particularly bad case results in a seal being broken, she finds her life beginning on a strange spiral back to a past she would prefer to forget. But some destinies are harder to shake than others, and her ordinary life will never be the same again.

Eh, normal is for the boring. Hexe Dragon by sakurademonalchemist reviews Some people get invited to the Varia Rosethorn is a witch who desperately wants to forget who she was when she left England. Where better to make a fresh start than in a group of elite assassins like the Varia? Hexe is going to have her work cut out for her when her secret is discovered Forgotten Famiglia by sakurademonalchemist reviews Harry isn't exactly idle when he's stuck in Diagon before third year.

Thanks to the goblins he is able to contact his grandfather's family in Italy. No one told him it would bring him into the mafia though! Not that he's complaining when he gets a new older brother out of the deal. Old alliances are tested and new ones are forged as this wizard makes his own way in the underworld! The Black Bunny by Windseeker reviews Harry's had it with his destined role after the Order does something he can't forgive. Now he's done with both sides of the war and wants to be left alone.

But since when have his wishes ever counted for anything? Harry was supposed to be your regular half-blood wizard. Yet Harry could control magic wandlessly and wordlessly at the age of four. As Harry begins Hogwarts and the dark lord rises, Harry finds it hard keeping his power and intelligence hidden, especially from his parents. An Alpha's Chance by slayer of destiny reviews When Fenrir comes to kill Harry Potter he isn't expecting what he finds there. Taking the teen with him, is the offer of a new life and safety something that Harry can really trust? What will become of it? What will Dumbledore do when his defender is no longer controllable by him?

What will the magical world do with a confident Harry Potter who becomes aware of his own power and position? Who is the mysterious warrior? But when he gets there, he finds that he can't do it. The Dark Lord quickly learns that the teen is far too valuable to kill, because Harry Potter belongs to him. In more ways than one.

Title and summary subject to future change. In Another Time by animeotaku20 reviews During his newest adventure, Harry Potter discovers that not all of his accidents have bad consequences, and a long-held wish is finally granted. Parental Guidance by foxgloves reviews It was always a possibility that Jiraiya had fathered a few children in his travels. He never knew she existed; Kagome's been looking for him for years. When she finds herself in Konoha, a struggle to get to know each other ensues.

Can You Protect Me? Harry comes into a creature inheritance and finds out that he has not one, but two mates. Will they be able to protect him from anything else happening to him? Will they be what he needs to flourish and lives happily? Love and War by DianaMoth reviews There is a time and place for everything. The battlefield isn't where Yoshino will find love, but afterwards Shikaku certainly doesn't seem to object. Wei on pixiv, id ] Naruto - Rated: Fascination by Laurenke1 reviews Harry had always been fascinated by Slytherins but he couldn't suspect that they would teach him about caring on Christmas Eve.

Shield by manapohaku2 reviews Non - Magic AU. Why did he choose to become a therapist again? At a school none the less! What was he drunk at the time? Hibari, Lambo, Mukuro R. Princess by Emmabeth27 reviews Kinktober Day 2, dirty talk day! What better way than to have a little phone sex? Naruto is using the day alone in the apartment to have a little "special time" when his boyfriend Kakashi calls.

Naruto isn't sure about the whole thing but when Kakashi calls him "Princess" Naruto is willing to do anything. Second chapter is kinktober day 7- crossdressing! Breaking the Sky by sakurademonalchemist reviews Left behind by her callous and idiotic father after he unexpectedly takes her mother on a year long cruise, Kiseki Sawada finds herself with an unexpected talent in a game called Dragon Drive. Except it's not all sunshine and roses Slip Up by wolfsrainrules reviews Skull wonders sometimes, what they would think of him if they ever found out.

He had lied for over 30 years to them after all. But they had never noticed. And then he doesn't have to wonder anymore. Hear me Roar by Chimebelle reviews For friends, Harry will do anything. So it's no surprise that when Regulus Black calls her, she goes to help him without even a bit of hesitance. She didn't know that from then on, her life would be quite Inspired by breather's Indebted. Equus by sakurademonalchemist reviews Harmony Potter prefers the life of a simple horse rancher after she left England.

Too bad fate has other plans, as she meets Dino Cavallone who is more than a simple man. He's the don of a mafia familigia! Harmony finds herself married into the mafia, but that's only the start of her chaotic new life. And she wouldn't have it any other way! Ascension by nwyd reviews After the Dursleys dump her on a train headed for Namimori, a chance meeting with the Hibari family pretty much knocks her intended future off course.

Harry finds that she doesn't mind that much, though between the multicoloured flames and crazy-weird hitmen, her life has gotten decidedly strange lately. Little Mockingbird by BlueRowley reviews Sirius babysits two-year-old Harry Snape for an afternoon while Severus sells potions to different apothecaries. When Sirius lets slip a few curse words, little Harry begins repeating them. Will Sirius be able to make Harry stop saying those naughty words before Severus returns?

A one-shot in the Second Chances Reality. Rated T for language. The world at large seems to take this as a sign it can treat her however it wishes. Familial Blessing by ImmemorialMemory reviews Harry only wanted to meet his cousin. He didn't expect to get saddled with her blue-eyed, whiskered-cheeked, recently-orphaned baby. Yet in accordance with his Potter luck, he wasn't going to get what he wanted at all. One Handed Applause by Barrel of Monkeys reviews The world of sports can always change due to one wild card. Harry Potter is a wild card that will change the Japanese middle school tennis scene.

After all what's a better present than a little brother? Ouais, comme quoi la vie d'une voleuse c'est pas toujours si simple It is 'That' time of Month for our dear Decima, and her Famiglia know what that means. It's just unfortunate that not everyone is as up to date with the warnings. Wrathful Skies by sakurademonalchemist reviews She never had a real family, at least until her brother's Rain found her. Now she's learning to be Quality while dating a homicidal exiled Prince and trained by Viper. The Wizards won't know what hit them, and neither will the mafia.

And things only get more interesting when her brother finally returns to his rightful place. Can the two learn to get along? The Fairest Shield by Strigi reviews Runa Fair-Shield never thought she would live to see the day that she would regret being adopted by the Dragonborn. However, playing the pivotal role as the rebellious teenager has Runa resisting the Dragonborn's widespread wealth and influence as she strives to make a name for herself in the Companions and rule the matters of her own heart without her adopted mother's iron rules.

Wizard Kingpin by Odin reviews Harry Potter meets some very interesting people in his youth, they help him grow to be someone the Wizarding World never expected. Dumbledore will realize sometimes the best plans don't go how you want them to. The balance of light and dark wavers through time and only Harry can maintain the balance. Done with his dying world Harry sends himself to another in hopes that it will not be as boring as his own. HEA Adopted from yaoi fangirl K - English - Romance - Chapters: Country Road by Cissnei69 reviews Learning that she wasn t a Potter by blood won't have happened if she hadn't taken Divination.

And in the end, Harry ended finding more than her biological family. Strictly Speaking by Flare Warrior reviews Harry is instructed to meet his soulmate to prevent an untimely outburst should they meet sometime in the future. Unfortunately, he meets Dean a few short seconds after he meets Eggsy. An Unexpected Meeting by LenaTheProfessionalStudent reviews Vilkas had spotted a lone figure battling a dragon, being a companion and a Nord, his sense of pride leads him to join the fight.

However, he soon discovers this lone warrior is no ordinary person, but the fabled Dragonborn. Shocked and tongue-tied by her presence, he has no idea the DB is actually the whelp he hates. DB in disguise Elder Scroll series - Rated: What he hadn't expected though, was the boy already having a Guardian. But who really is Narukami Haruka? Lui, le terrible Mangemorts Severus Snape What color do you like? Dating Problems by Lady Hallen reviews Harry needs to continue the family line.

The thing is, she can't seem to keep a date beyond an hour. Summoning herself a partner seems to be an excellent solution. But they didn't need the help of the Byakugan to know that there was something special about their heiress.

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Harmonic Symphony by sakurademonalchemist reviews A single event can change anyone's life. For Tsuna, it was finding a violin after being locked up in an abandoned music room. With no friends and no reason not to try, music quickly becomes his life, opening up new doors and some unexpected new allies. His life quickly begins to change long before a baby wearing a fedora appears to train him.

He leaves his friends in search of a safe place to raise the child. Dragonborn's main quest, "Filial Bonds," and "Retaking Thirsk"; also the Companions' questline and the conclusion of Skyrim's main quest. A Chance of a Storm by slayer of destiny reviews Harry is getting ready to go back to Hogwarts, but with it comes facing Dumbledore. What's a girl to do? Fluffy follow-up to Awakenings. Awakenings by EmbersOfAmber reviews He picked up one of her sleeping yukatas. His nose was assaulted by a powerful smell, sweat and the smell of a woman's arousal. Sleepwear Tips by Flare Warrior reviews Eggsy stumbles in on Harry wearing very little and has trouble leaving.

Our Boss is a Yanki! Sawada Tsunade was the textbook stereotype of a delinquent. To think this girl is slotted in to become the 10th generation boss of the Vongola Famiglia Reborn has his work cut out for him with this one, that's for sure. Tsuna] Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

Silver Lining by Chai Em Lee reviews [Hiatus] [Rewrite Ongoing] Skull met a lonely and injured little boy in a park one day and vowed to help in any way he could. Harry met a strange and pushy tiny adult that just wouldn't go away. Drabble fic featuring an Overprotective!

Skull and a Cute! The Purrfect Life by misteeirene reviews Harry learns the truth about his heritage after he is rescued by his godfathers. Can his family keep him safe from Dumbledore and all the dominates? The first lilacs of spring by shadowleaves reviews Harriet Potter-Black never wanted this.

But that's where she is now, so she'd better deal with it. And sadly, most of them belonged in a mental asylum, but she too gets no room to complain. Unexpected developments by slayer of destiny reviews After different events in The Department of Mysteries Harry gets some shocking news. His whole life is about to change course, and Lucius Malfoy gets a second chance to love. Assembly Required by indraaas reviews "natsu you fuck, I sent you to build a wardobe not marry my fucking sister" - they probably have the movie rights to this one.

The Hunter and the Wizard by slayer of destiny reviews Dean has been keeping secrets for a while now, from everyone, including Sam. However a Demon is going to spill the beans on him, and he will have to explain two new someone's to John, Sam and Bobby. Lost and Better Off Not Found by phoenixmaiden13 reviews Missing for 8 years Harry Potter is finally found and returns to the wizarding world and he is taking them by storm.

Bitches better watch out, this Harry Potter doesn't take no shit from nobody. OOC, Mild references to slash. In which Tsuna can't believe the hottest guy on campus agreed to the crazy plan his friends devised to get him away from his 'ex' who was really a stalker and Reborn who has no idea what to make of Tsuna and his crazy friends or why he makes a good fake boyfriend aside from his father's power. OR the AU where Reborn is the lonely normal one. Hariel Potter wakes up in another world, with a dying mother dragon and four baby dragons to provide for.

M - English - Adventure - Chapters: Little White Lies by Laetus Fabricor reviews Did you know that in , an experiment proved that adults on average lie at least once every ten minutes per conversation.

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The adults Harry had met far exceeded that average. Maybe he was just unlucky? Watch as he lives and attempts to avoid liars A Marriage Courtship by slayer of destiny reviews After the defeat of Voldemort Harry receives a letter requesting a courtship from King Rhaegar, he agrees to the courtship and gets swept away in courtship, romance and a different world to the one he is used to. The Musician of Death by Rose the Wary Wolf reviews Harry Potter was fond of the red haired man who escaped death and debt collectors at every turn. But, when the man picks up a scarred and nameless child, Harry very nearly falls in love.

Joining hands with Marian Cross to raise Allen Walker was just the beginning. So of course she ends up with wolf shifters and vegan vampires as neighbors. Then Voldemort starts corresponding with her. Parallel Worlds by alonelynight reviews Mai works at a library where she met a tall brooding man. This meeting changed her life forever cliche right? When before, the only problem she has is money, now, she has obsessed ghosts, strange dreams, and dark haired men making her life more chaotic. Hunter x Of x Flames by sakurademonalchemist reviews The Association and the Underworld have always had a tentative truce between them.

But that agreement is thrown into question when the last heir of the Vongola decides to become a Hunter to escape the mafioso that chase him. Too bad he doesn't have much of a choice, but he won't bow to their whims so easily. The Vongola will either rise from the ashes of their mistakes, or fall.

Obliviousness runs in the Family by UnknownRegion reviews After millennium of only Death as company, Harry's common sense became pretty skewered. A bored Harry made his way to the Human Realm, and even after his death, his Potter luck doomed him into being the Sky Arcabaleno. Coping Mechanisms by sakurademonalchemist reviews Everyone has a way to cope with the stress of everyday life. Some just have more unusual methods than most. A minor joke Nana plays on her son takes a life of it's own as Tsuna finds an "out" of his everyday life that makes everything better for him. It just comes at the cost of his gender identity and whatever chance for normal he had.

Gender-fluid Tsuna Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Starts after Sherlock is resurrected S3E1: The Sign of Three. He wasn't the charitable sort. He was the type of boy who kicked stray dogs when they came begging for scraps from him and his mother. Who bared his teeth at the other homeless kids when they looked at him. But this time, he extended a hand to the soaking wet scrap of fluff hidden in a box.

And for what was probably the first time in his life, his hand was taken. This takes place a year and a half after Harry's turning. Carlisle is concerned after Harry starts exhibiting some strange behaviors. Even after all tests prove that his mate is healthy. Carlisle is still worried. Handprint On My Heart by tlyxor1 reviews A series of unrelated ficlets in which fem! Harry meets her soulmate. Or, alternatively, that one in which fem!

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To Kill a Bull by Discoabc reviews "At least the other clan kids of the series had something to protect themselves with practically from birth. Sakura was blessed with the oh so helpful gift of a larger than average forehead. I refused to be that remedy. Grimm Nights by slayer of destiny reviews Harry fell in love with Nick when he was in Portland, but he left when Juliet started regaining her memories.

Now though he is forced to return for Nick's help. But how does the Grimm feel about Harry, and their baby? What will happen now that Juliet is showing her true colours? Cirrus Cloud by silenceia reviews In which you are Acacia Potter who becomes Skull de Mort and makes tons of awesome friends along the way. Almost completely angst-free, isn't that great? An equally bored Voldemort decides to write back. And thus, a summer of secrets is born, and the enemy named boredom is fended off.

It's not her husband turning into a dragon? What's bigger than that? Found by Nyteflyer35 reviews Odin levies an unusual punishment on Loki when he is returned to Asgard after his defeat on Midgard. When Harry Potter opens his door one morning to find a baby abandoned on his doorstep, he is reminded forcefully of his own childhood.

He swears this child will grow up knowing he is loved and wanted. Father by FinalXFantasy91 reviews One shot. In which Tsuna accidentally calls his tutor-turned-father-figure 'Tou-san' and wants to dig a ten-meter hole to die from embarrassment. Reborn just finds it amusing. K - English - Chapters: Altair by StillWatersAreDeep reviews At Hogwarts all 7th year students are allowed to sign up for new elective classes, called Altair's subjects by the students.

What will happen when Draco and Harry become partners? The Sweet Werewolf by ScarletRedfox reviews Farkas has been known to be a bit of a 'icebrain' and a little slow when it came to the problems of the world and the political side of the war raging on.

His brother was the tough bookworm and Farkas was the headstrong warrior rushing straight into battle without a plan. She used to have a something of a soft spot for Farkas, but with the revelation of The two tracks showcased here are from the golden age of Brazilian boogie. While not as instantly as infectious as some of his better-known singles, it's still superb; a breezy, blue-eyed soul cut full of rising horns and sweet Portuguese vocals.

Two premium Latin funk documents on one limited 45, Mr Bongo deliver once again: Marcos Valle needs no introduction to Brazilian music enthusiasts. Fusing sleazy rock n roll with jazzy Latin soul, madly this is the first time it's ever graced a 45! Yoruba Soul Remixes 12".

Here it gets a deserved single release, with the near perfect original being complimented by two reworks by Osunlade under the Yoruba Soul guise. On the A-side you'll find his main remix, a loose, warm and organic interpretation that wisely retains almost all of the band's brilliant instrumentation while adding a few hazy deep house touches. Thrillingly, the remix rolls along on jaunty polyrhythms before Osunlade switches to rolling deep house beats midway through. An instrumental version of the fine Yoruba Soul remix completes a brilliant package. Originally out in on his own self-titled album, Arthur Verocai's "Sylvia" is a peach of a song, one of those sweet and bubbly percussive tunes that blur the lines between modern civilization and the jungle.

The Brazilian composer's music has been heavily sought-after in its original format, and Mr Bongo delivers here in fine style with another killer from the LP, "Na Boco Do Sol". Fans of Marcos Valle will appreciate this one for the slow magnetic waves permeating from just about every angle on the record. Digital Zandoli gatefold heavyweight vinyl 2xLP. Here's yet another rare '80s compilation with even more deep cuts than the last.

Where do they find them all? Heavenly Sweetness clearly know but they ain't telling! They are showing though, and here on Digital Zandoli they reveal 12 newly discovered disco, boogie and zouk tracks recorded about 30 years ago in the West Indies. We're clearly spoilt for choice on this record, but highlights include the synthetic sea breeze grooves of Puzzle Pulsion's "Mwoin Ka Songe", the mellow Afro grooves of Zanman's "Poutchi" and the abstract body music via a sandy beach vibes of OR EA's "Biguine Inferno".

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A Remix Album heavyweight vinyl LP. Under The Influence Vol 6: In keeping with the series' dusty-fingered ethos, there's plenty of brilliant rarities to set the pulse racing - see the smooth '80s boogie of Leston Paul's "All Nite Tonight", the up-tempo hustle of Oscar Perry's "Body Movements" - as well as a smattering of obscure versions of classic dancefloor hits check Michele Claire's version of "In The Bush".

You'll also find a smattering of killer Faze Action edits, too, with their version of Midway's "Set It Out" and Mikki's freestyle-era boogie ham "Dance Lover" standing out. In keeping with the series' dusty-fingered ethos, there's plenty of brilliant rarities to set the pulse racing - see the smooth '80s boogie of Leston Paul's "All Nite Tonight", the sublime Afro-disco brilliance of Bebe Manga, the up-tempo hustle of Oscar Perry's "Body Movements" and the South American disco swirl of Don Lurio's "Ruba Ruba" - as well as a smattering of obscure versions of classic dancefloor hits check Michele Claire's version of "In The Bush".

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It features, in their words "a selection of favourites, recent discoveries and sought after obscurities, which form the basis of our DJ sets and our radio show of the same name. Our favourites weren't limited to: Magic happens when Mr Thing hits the crates. When, after the lapse of many years, we dryly say or write the words, "they formed a school," we seldom take the trouble to conjure up any adequately vivid impression of what the formation of a school of literature and art signifies.

There is a mysterious magic about the process. Some one remarkable man, after a long unconscious or half-conscious struggle, finally with full consciousness, frees himself from prejudices and attains to clearness of vision ; then, every- thing being ready, the lightning of genius illuminates what he beholds. Such a man gives utterance as did Hugo in a prose preface of some score of pages to some thoughts which have never been thought or expressed in the same manner before.

They may be only half true, they may be vague, but they have this remarkable quality that, in spite of more or less indefiniteness, they affront all traditional prejudices and wound the vanity of the day where it is most vulnerable, whilst they ring in the ears of the young genera- tion like a call, like a new, audacious watchword.

Scarcely are these words spoken than there comes with the speed and precision of an echo a thousand-tongued answer from the wounded vanities and injured interests, an answer like the furious baying of a hundred packs of hounds. First one man, then another, then a third, comes to the spokesman of the new tendency, each with his own standpoint, each with his revolt, his ambition, his need, his hope, his resolve.

They show him that the words he has spoken are incar- nated in them. Some communicate directly with him, some with each other in his spirit and his name. They are young, yet all are already in possession of what to them constitutes life ; the one has his dearly-bought joys, the other his bracing sufferings; and from these life-ele- ments each has extracted his own portion of enthusiasm.

Their meeting is electric ; they exchange ideas with youthful haste, impart to each other their various sympathies and antipathies, enthusiasms and detestations ; and all these well- springs of feeling flow together like the streams that form a river. But the most beautiful feature in this crystallisation of artistic spirits into a school is the reverence, the awe which, in spite of the unanimity of their opinions, and in spite of their good comradeship, each feels for the other.

Outsiders are apt to confuse this with what is satirically called "mutual admiration. Their hearts are too young, too pure, not to admire in real earnest. One young productive mind regards the other as something marvellous, which holds surprises in store. To the one the workshop of the other's mind is like a sealed book ; he cannot guess what will next appear from it, has no idea what pleasures his comrade has in store for him. They honour in one another something which they value higher than the personality, than the usually as yet undeveloped character, namely, the talent by virtue of which they are all related to the deity they worship — art.

Seldom, however, in the world's history has the mutual admiration accompanying an artistic awakening been carried to such a pitch as it was by the generation of It became positive idolatry. All the literary productions of the period show that the youth of the day were intoxicated with the feeling of friendship and brotherhood. They did not only praise one another, they communicated ideas to each other and helped each other.

Now it is an inspiring influence, now an artistic criticism, now some actual service rendered, which knits the bond of friendship between two authors of this period. Emile Deschamps inspires Victor Hugo to borrow themes from the old Spanish Romancero ; Gautier writes the beautiful tulip sonnet in Balzac's Un grand Homme de Province h Paris, and helps him to dramatise certain of his plots ; Sainte- Beuve reads George Sand's manuscripts and aids her with his criticism ; George Sand and De Musset influence one another powerfully at a certain stage of their career ; Madame de Girardin, M6ry, Sandeau, and Gautier collaborate in a novel written in letters ; M6rim6e is the bond of union between the realists Beyle and Vitet and the romanticists.

The short period during which all meet and combine is the blossoming time of literature. Before many years pass Nodier is in his grave, Hugo is living in exile in Jersey, Alexandre Dumas is turning literature into a trade, Sainte- Beuve and Gautier are to be found in Princess Mathilde's circle, M6rim6e is presiding over the Empress Eugenie's courts of love, De Musset sits solitary over his absinthe, and George Sand has retired to Nohant. One and all in their riper years made new connections, connections which aided their development ; but their boldest and freshest, if not always their most refined and beautiful work was done at the time when they were holding their first meetings in Charles Nodier's quarters at the Arsenal, or in the apartments in the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs where Hugo and his pretty young wife kept house on their francs a year, or in Petrus Borel's garret, where the host's Hernani cloak decorated the wall in company with a sketch by Dev6ria and a copy of a Giorgione, and where, owing to lack of chairs, at least half of the company had to stand.

In all the arts a break with tradition was aimed at and demanded. The original, the unconscious, the popular was sought after and demanded. Hitherto the savage had talked like a Frenchman of the eighteenth century Montesquieu, Voltaire — M6rim6e in Colomba and Carmen depicted savage emotions in all their wildness and freshness.

Racine's child in Athalie had spoken like a miniature edition of a grown-up man — Nodier with a childlike heart put simple, innocent words into his children's mouths. In the French literature of an earlier period, woman had generally acted with full consciousness, arriving at conclusions like a man ; see the works of Cor- neille, Racine, and Voltaire. Corneille paid homage to virtue, Crgbillon the younger to frivolity and vice, but both the virtue and the vice were conscious and acquired.

In olden days the poet had been a courtier, like Racine and Molifere, or a man of the world, like Voltaire and Beaumarchais, or simply an ordinary decent citizen, like Lafontaine. Now he became the neglected step-child of society, the high-priest of humJhity, often poor and despised, but with the starry brow and the tongue of fire. Hugo hymned him as the shepherd of the people, Alfred de Vigny represented him in Stello and Chatterton as the sublime child who prefers dying of hunger to degrading his muse by common work, and dies blessing his fellow-men, who acknowledge his worth when it is too late.

They attacked pseudo-classicism, the tire- some and monotonous Frenchifying and modernising of all ages and nationalities. They took as their watchword " local colouring. They felt that their predecessors had been led astray by the premise that every human being was simply a human being, and, moreover, more or less of a Frenchman. Still less was the Frenchman the typical human being. It was imperative, if they were to understand and represent human life, that they should free themselves from themselves.

This idea gave the im- pulse to the art and criticism of nineteenth-century France. Authors now made it their endeavour to train their readers to see things from this new point of view. They no longer wrote to please the public — and it is this fact which gives value to the books of the period. Therefore a critic who, like myself, is engaged in tracing the main currents of literature, must dwell upon many a seldom read and still more rarely bought Romantic work, and do little more than mention such a talented dramatist as Scribe, who for a whole generation dominated the stage in every country in Europe.

All the offspring of the author's manage de convenance with that doubtful character, public opinion, all those literary children which their author begets, giving a side-thought to the taste and morality of his public, are defunct a generation later. There was no real life and heat in them, nothing but timorous regard for a public which is now dead ; they were nothing but the supply of a demand which has long ceased to exist.

But every work in which an independent writer has, without any side-thought, uttered what he felt and described what he saw, is, and will con- tinue to be, no matter how few editions of it may be printed, a valuable document. There is only a seeming contradiction between this con- demnation of the literary work produced to please the public, and the doctrine of the sound natural influence of society on the author.

It is certain that the author cannot separate himself from his age. But the current of the age is not an undivided current ; there is an upper and an under one. To let one's self drive with or be driven by the upper one is weakness, and ends in destruction. In other words, every age has its dominant and favourite ideas and forms, which are simply the results of the life of former ages, that were arrived at long ago and have slowly petrified ; but besides these it owns another whole class of quite different ideas, which have not yet taken shape, but are in the air, and are apprehended by the greatest men of the age as the results which must now be arrived at.

In an English theatrical company visited Paris, and for the first time Frenchmen saw Shakespeare's master- pieces, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, and Hamlet, admirably played. It was under the influence of these performances that Victor Hugo wrote that preface to Cromwell which is regarded as the programme of the new literature.

The literary war of liberation began with an assault upon French classical tragedy, the weakest and most ex- posed point in literary tradition. Hugo knew very little about the attacks upon its authority which had been made in other countries ; and to those who have read the utter- ances delivered on the same subject many years previously by Lessing, Wilhelm Schlegel, and the English Romantic writers, his manifesto offers little that is new.

But it was, of course, an important step to carry the war into France itself.

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The vigorous arguments expended in proving the un naturalness of compressing the action of every drama into twenty-four hours and a single pillared hall, seem to the reader of to-day almost as uninteresting as the ab- surdities attacked ; but he must remember that Boileau's authority was then still supreme, still unshaken in France. Of interest as regards Hugo's own development are the passages in which he expounds his private theory of poetry ; although he is so much of the poet and so little of the thinker that his arguments are, as a rule, sadly inconclusive.

What he attacks is the idealistic, pseudo-classic tendency of tragedy. This he does, oddly enough, in the name of Christianity, and by means of a great historical survey, made on as false a system as any of those of his contem- porary, Cousin, of whom it reminds us. He distinguishes three great periods — the primitive, when poetry is lyric ; the period of ancient civilisation, when it is epic ; and the age of Christianity, which is the period of the drama. It is no longer imperative that tragedy should be solemn throughout ; it may venture to develop into drama.

If we pay less heed to what Hugo says than to what f he really intends to say, we find that the sum and substance of this tolerably foolish argument is a naturalistic protest against pure beauty as the proper or highest subject of art. We will renounce convention ; we will not feel ourselves in duty bound to exclude everything from serious poetry which directly reminds us of the material world. We see this from the examples he gives. The judge is to be allowed to say: And now let us dine. And Hugo calls Napoleon's exclamation: P Exaggerated as Hugo's language may be, his meaning is plain.

What he asserts is the aesthetic value of the ugly. He maintains that the beautiful only comprehends form as abso- lute symmetry, form in its simplest relations and most intimate harmony with our being, whereas the ugly is a detail in a much greater, harmonious whole which we are unable fully to discern. He declares that the ugly has a thousand types, whereas the beautiful is poor, and has but one ; which last theory we may be excused for calling one of the most absurd ever advanced by a poet. It was parodied by his opponents in the axiom: Le Laid dest le Beau " Foul is fair," as the witches sing in Macbeth , and combated with the ob- jections which the Romanticists themselves offered in the Seventies to extreme realism.

I— Was not this French Romanticism, then, after all simply a thinly-veiled naturalism? What did Victor Hugo demand in the name of the young generation but nature — faithful reproduction, local and historical colour? Is not George Sand Rousseau's daughter? And Beyle and M6rim6e, are they not half-brutal, half-refined worshippers of nature?

Is not Balzac nowadays actually honoured as the founder of a naturalistic school? The answer is simple. In his early youth nature was to Victor Hugo a great Ariel-Caliban, the product of a superhuman ideality and an unnatural bestiality, the result obtained by the combination of two supernatural ingredients. But this conception of nature, which corresponded exactly with that of Germanic Romanticism, at times made way in Hugo's case for the magnificent pantheism which found typical expression in that profound and beautiful poem, "Le Satyre," in La Ltgende des Sticks.

The combination of love of nature with predilection for the unnatural, is to be traced far on into the new literature. All its authors chant the praises of nature. But what they detest and shun under the name of the prosaic and the commonplace is very often the simple nature that lies nearest them. Rom antic nature alone is dear to them. George Sand in Lilia, Balzac in Pire Goriot, make the ideal or the omnipotent galley-slave the judge of society ; Balzac actually writes fantastic legends in Hoffmann's style. And they are even more inclined to shun the plain and simple in their language than in their characters.

Picturesque, enthusiastic words, with which the narrative was inlaid as with so many transparent jewels, opened up endless vistas. In so far, therefore, it may be said that both the style and the predilec- tions of these young authors were purely romantic.

But only in so far. In Victor Hugo, the founder of the school, the dual love of the natural and the unnatural was the result of a personal peculiarity. His eye naturally sought and found contrasts ; his mind had an innate tendency towards antithesis. In Inez de Castro, the melodrama of his earliest youth, and later in Marie Tudor, we have the throne on one side of the stage, the scaffold on the other, the monarch and the executioner face to face.

About the time when the preface to Cromwell was written, Hugo was, his wife tells us, in the habit of walk- ing on the Boulevard Montparnasse. This contrast of shows and funerals confirmed him in his idea of a drama in which extremes meet ; and it was there that the third act of Marion Delorme occurred to him, the act in which the tragic, fruitless attempt of the Marquis de Nangis to save his brother from the scaffold forms the counterpart to.

He does not see them act as formative influences upon the human soul ; he employs them as great symbols of the tremendous reverses of fate ; he arranges them 1 like the stage scenery of a melodrama. If we look deeper, what reveals itself to us in this? French Romanticism, in spite of all the ele- ments it has in common with general European Romanticism, is in many ways a classic phenomenon, a product of classic French rhetoric.

Words undergo strange vicissitudes in this world of ours. The simple explanation of this is, that whatever is strange and foreign produces a romantic impres- sion. The art and literature of a people of a homogeneous civilisation and culture, like the ancient Greeks, are classic ; but when one civilised, cultured nation discovers another civilisa- tion and culture which seem to it strange and wonderful, it is at once impressed by it as romantic, is affected by it as by a landscape seen through coloured glass. The Romanticists of France despised their own national excellences, the per- spicuity and rational transparency of their own literature, A and extolled Shakespeare and Goethe because these poets.

J did not, like Racine and, to a certain extent, Corneille, break f up human life into its separate elements, did not represent I isolated emotions and passions which offered dramatic con- T trasts, but, without any rhetorical recurrence to the funda- f J mental elements, flung real human life on the stage in all its 'J complex cohesion. The Frenchmen determined to follow this great example. But what was the result? Under their treatment, in the hands of Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, George Sand, Sainte- Beuve, real life was dissolved and disintegrated anew. In the hands of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas its extremes formed symmetrical contrasts, exactly as in classic tragedy.

The light, free, airy fancy which inter- mingles all the most varied imaginations of the poetic mind, which unites near and far, to-day and hoary antiquity, the real and the impossible, in one and the same work, which combines the divine and the human, popular legend and profound allegory, making of them one great symbolic whole — this real romantic gift was not theirs. They never saw the dance of the elves, nor heard the thin, clear tones of their music floating across the meadows.

Although Celts by birth, these men were Latins ; they felt and wrote as Latins ; and the word Latin is equivalent to classic. If we understand by Romanticism what is generally understood, that is, an over- whelming of the style by the subject-matter, contents uncon- trolled by any laws of form, such as we have in the writings of Jean Paul and Tieck, and even in Shakespeare and Goethe A Midsummer Nighfs Dream and the second part of Faust , then all the French Romanticists are classic writers — M6ri- m6e, George Sand, Gautier, and even Victor Hugo himself.

Hugo's romantic drama is as disintegrative, regular in con- struction, perspicuous, and eloquent as a tragedy of Corneille. At the mention of this name my thoughts turn involun- tarily and naturally from the characteristics common to the periods to the common characteristics of race. In Hugo, Corneille's apparent antagonist, Corneille lives again.

There are many veins in the French character. It is this last which pulsates so strongly in Corneille; and in Victor Hugo the blood begins to course in it again. If we compare Hugo in his stateliness with other poets, we shall find that there is probably not one in the whole world whom he resembles so much as he does old Corneille.

The drama which makes Hugo famous is Hern ani, Spanish in its subject, and permeated by the spirit of Calderon's code of honour. But in both these dramas it is heroism pure and simple which is inculcated and exhibited. They are schools for heroes. The story of the first performance has often been told.

Adherents of the old school listened at the doors during the rehearsals, and picked up single lines, which they caricatured ; and a parody of the play was acted before the play itself. The author had a hard struggle with the censor ; he had to fight for his play almost line by line. There was a long correspondence on the subject of the one line: Hugo was determined to dispense with the paid claque, but he arranged to have three hundred places at his disposal for the first three nights. The most faithful of his followers, young men who, according to their own confession, spent their nights in writing " Vive Victor Hugo!

The moment the curtain rose the storm burst, and every time the play was performed there was such an uproar in the theatre that it was with the greatest difficulty it could be acted to the end. The fact may seem unimportant, yet it is worthy of observation, that France is the only country in which such esprit de corps, without the existence of any tangible corps, such unselfish devotion to the cause and honour of another, has ever been witnessed.

The enemy took boxes and left them unoccupied, in order that the newspapers might report an empty house ; they turned their backs to the stage ; they made disgusted grimaces, as if the play were more than they could stand ; they affected to be absorbed in the newspapers ; they slammed the box doors, or laughed loud and scornfully, or hooted and hissed and whistled ; so that a resolute defence was absolutely necessary. The hero is a noble-minded man of genius, the genius and noble-mindedness being of the type which exists in the imagination of a young man of twenty.

His genius impels him to lead the life of a brigand chieftain, and out of pure high-mindedness and contempt for ordinary prudence he does the most foolish things — betrays himself, lets his mortal enemy escape, gives himself up again and again. As chieftain he exercises unbounded power over other men, but it seems to be his courage alone which gives him this, for all his actions are as unreasoning as a child's. Nevertheless there is life and reality in the play.

This noble and disinterested highwayman, who lives at war with society and is the leader of a band of faithful enthusiasts, reminds us of the poet himself, the literary outlaw, who filled pit and gallery with a band of young men quite as remarkable in appearance and attire as his brigand troop.

They knew that Hugo bad received an anonymous letter in which he was threatened with assassination " if he did not withdraw his filthy play," and, improbable as it was that the threat would be literally fulfilled, two of them accom- panied him to and from the theatre every evening, though he and they lived in the farthest apart quarters of Paris. Amongst Hugo's papers of this date there is a quaint note from the painter Charlet, which expresses the feelings of these youths.

I send them to prostrate themselves at your feet, begging for four places for this evening, if it is not too late. I answer for my men ; they are fellows who would gladly cut off heads for the sake of the wigs. I encourage them in this noble spirit, and do not let them go without my fatherly blessing. I stretch out my hands and say: God protect you, young men! The cause is a good one ; do your duty! They rise and I add: Now, my children, take good care of Victor Hugo. God is good, but He has so much to do that our friend must in the first instance rely upon us.

Go, and do not put him you serve to shame. The dullest materialism made life colourless. France was as regularly ordered as the avenues of the gardens of Versailles ; it was ruled by old men, who patronised only such young ones as had written Latin verse to perfection at school, and had since qualified themselves for office by absolute correctness of behaviour.

There they sat, these correct, faultlessly-attired youths, with their neck- cloths and stiff standing collars. Contrast with them the youths in the pit, one with locks reaching to his waist and a scarlet satin doublet, another with a Rubens hat and bare hands. These latter hated the powerful Philistine bourgeoisie as Hernani hated the tyranny of Charles V. They gloried in their position ; they, too, were freebooters, poor, proud — one a cherisher of Republican dreams, most of them wor- shippers of art. There they stood, many of them geniuses — Balzac, Berlioz, Thdophile Gautier, G6rard de Nerval, Petrus Borel, Pr6ault — taking the measure of their opponents of the same generation.

They felt that they themselves were at least not place-seekers, not tuft-hunters, beggars, and parasites like those others ; they were the men who a few months later made the Revolution of July, and who in the course of a few years gave France a literature and art of the first rank. We know how they regarded Hernani. What did they see in the second great character, King Charles of Spain? He repels at first. We cannot place much faith in this cold, cautious monarch's ardent love for Donna Sol ; and he, moreover, employs violent and dishonourable means to get her into his power.

But the poet soon raises him to a higher level, and makes us feel the great ambition which fills his soul. It was Charles's tremendous monologue at the tomb of Charlemagne which decided the fate of the drama that even- ing. And this much criticised and ridiculed monologue is in reality the work of a young master. It is easy to perceive, even if we did not know, how untrue it is to history, how impossible it is that Charles V.

This is the historical,! Listen to Don Carlos' s description of Europe: A building with two human beings on its pinnacles, two elected chiefs, to whom every hereditary monarch must bow — the Emperor and the Pope. Almost all the states have hereditary rulers, and are, in so far, in the power of chance ; but the people are at times able to elect their Pope or their Emperor ; chance corrects chance, and the balance is restored. The Electors in their cloth of gold, the Cardinals in their scarlet, are the instruments by means of whom God chooses. It must not be forgotten that men's enthusiasm for Napoleon in those days by no means implied that they were Bonapartists ; it only signified that they belonged to the party of progress.

The Napoleon they worshipped was not the tyrant of France, but the humiliator of kings and of hereditary authority. The Emperor, as compared with the King, was regarded as the personified people ; therefore the young generation was deeply moved when Charles in his monologue exclaims: Miroir ou rarement un roi se voit en beau! At the grave of Charlemagne he matures into the popular Emperor who has been so often dreamed of in modern times, and his passionate ambition is purified by his intense desire to solve gigantic problems and accomplish prodigious tasks.

The man who was, to begin with, so obnoxious to the youthful part of the audience, whose brutal desire made him so inferior to his noble-minded rival Hernani and the proud lady they both love, ends, when he is Emperor, by renouncing his claims and showing mercy — and suddenly the two happy lovers seem small and in- significant beside him.

With his hand on his heart he says softly to himself: Laisse regner Pesprit que toujours tu troublas.

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Tes amours desormais, tes mattresses, helas! Cest l'Allemagne, c'est la Flandre, c'est l'Espagne! A la place du coeur, il n'a qu'un ecusson 1 " Such words as these produced a powerful effect on the ambitious young men who were the real audience of the play. The drama, the tragedy, of ambition moved them as deeply as the drama of independence. They knew that great public aims are attained, great tasks accomplished only by manly resolution nourished upon the intensest emotions, longings, and joys of the heart, which have been offered as a burnt-offering on the altar of the aim — therefore they understood Carlos.

Nevertheless the fifth act, with the duet between the lovers, is in its purely lyric excellence the gem of the play. Here was love as those young men felt it and desired to have it represented. As a drama Hernani is extremely imperfect ; it is a lyrical, rhetorical work, containing much that is extravagant.

But it has the one, all-important merit, namely, that in it an independent and remarkable human soul has expressed itself unrestrainedly. From such a work it is possible to learn much of its author's mental idiosyncrasy. He is there with his genius, his limitations, his character, his whole past — with his conceptions of liberty and authority, of honour and nobility, of love and of death. And the work presents to us not only Victor Hugo and a bit of the Spain of 15 19, but the young generation of its own day and a piece of the France of Hernani is the essence of the spirit which inspired the youth of France at the time of the Revolution of July ; it is an image of France which, seen in a romantic light, expands into an image of the world.

We shall detain them to compare them with one another and see in what they agree, by this means attaining to a certainty of what the fundamental characteristic of the age is ; then we shall let them pass before us in historical succession, and try, by carefully observing in what they differ from one another, to discover the law which produces these differences ; we shall watch, as it were, the flight of the arrows which indicate the direction of the spiritual currents.

Their host was a man who in point of age belonged to the previous generation he was born in , but who in his mental attitude had anticipated the nascent literature, which he consequently at once and without hesitation took under his protection. His name was Charles Nodier. Nodier's life had been one of strange vicissitudes ; he had been an Emigre in the Jura, a newspaper editor in lllyria, and now he was a librarian in Paris.

Is it the agrarian law? No, it is the contract of sale, drawn up by intriguers and partisans who have desired to enrich themselves, which delivers a people into the hands of the rich. You are master over my money. I am master of your life. Give me the money and you may keep your life.

The most natural thing about him is that he wears gold earrings, and this realistic trait Madame Nodier had almost succeeded in eliminating. Nodier allowed himself to be, as a rule, guided by his wife's taste and wishes. But when he once in a way felt inclined to rebel, and, to excuse himself, pled his submission on all other occasions, Madame Nodier always said: Men had forgotten the existence of such a book as Jean Sbogar, when Napoleon's memoirs came out and informed them that he had had it with him at St. Helena, and had read it with interest. The little novel belongs to Nodier's transition period.

It was written before he had developed his characteristic individuality.