ticism thereof--A parallel from
painting--The reality--And the passion of it--Other short
stories--Gautier's humour: _Les Jeune-France_--Return to
_Fortunio_--And others--Longer books: _Le Capitaine
Fracasse_ and others--_Mlle. De
Maupin_--Merimee--Carmen--_Colomba_--Its smaller companions:
_Mateo Falcone_, etc.--Those of _Carmen_; _Arsene
Guillot_--And _L'Abbe Aubain_--_La Prise de la Redoute_--The
_Dernieres Nouvelles_; _Il Viccolo di Madama
Lucrezia_--_Djoumane_--_Lokis_--_La Chambre Bleue_--The
_Chronique de Charles IX_--The semi-dramatic stories: _La
Jacquerie_--_Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement_, etc.--Musset:
charm of his dramatised stories; his pure narration
unsuccessful--_Frederic et Bernerette_--_Les Deux
Maitresses_, _Le Fils du Titien_, etc.--_Emmeline_--Gerard
de Nerval: his peculiar position--_La Boheme Galante_, _Les
Filles du Feu_, and _Le Reve et la Vie_--Their general
character--Particular examples--_Aurelia_--And especially
_Sylvie_--Alfred de Vigny: _Cinq-Mars_--The faults in its
general scheme--And in its details--_Stello_ less of a
novel, but containing better novel-stuff--Its framework and
"anecdotes"--The death of Gilbert--The satiric episode:
contrast--The Chatterton part--The tragedy of Andre
Chenier--_Servitude et Grandeur Militaires_--The first
story--The second--and third--The moral of the three--Note
on Fromentin's _Dominique_: its altogether exceptional
character.

CHAPTER VII

THE MINORS OF 1830 281

Sainte-Beuve: _Volupte_--Its "puff-book"--Itself--Its
character in various aspects--Jules Sandeau and Charles de
Bernard--Sandeau's work--Bernard's--Sue, Soulie, and the
novel of melodrama: _Le Juif Errant_, etc.--Melodramatic
fiction generally--_Le Chateau des Pyrenees_--_Les Memoires
du Diable_--Later writers and writings of the
class--Murger--The _Vie de Boheme_--_Les Buveurs d'Eau_ and
the Miscellanies--Reybaud: _Jerome Paturot_, and Thackeray
on its earlier part--The windfall of Malvina--The difference
of the Second Part--Not much of a novel--But an invaluable
document--Mery--_Les Nuits Anglaises_--The minor
stories--_Histoire d'une Colline_--The "Manchester"
article--Karr--Roger de Beauvoir: _Les Cabaret des
Morts_--Ourliac: _Contes du Bocage_--Achard--Souvestre,
Feval, etc.--Borel's _Champavert_.

CHAPTER VIII

DUMAS THE ELDER 323

The case of Dumas--Charge and
dischar