VICTOR HUGO HIS LIFE AND WORK BY G. BARNETT SMITH,

PRELIMINARY NOTE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS.

CHAPTER II. DAWNINGS OF GENIUS.

CHAPTER III. VICTOR HUGO'S HUMANITARIANISM.

CHAPTER IV. THE TRIUMPH OF ROMANTICISM.

CHAPTER V. 'NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS.'

CHAPTER VI. 'MARION DE LORME' AND OTHER DRAMAS.

CHAPTER VII. LAST DRAMATIC WRITINGS.

CHAPTER VIII. THE FRENCH ACADEMY.

CHAPTER IX. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

CHAPTER X. THE POET IN EXILE.

CHAPTER XI. IN GUERNSEY.—'LES MISÉRABLES.'

CHAPTER XII. LITERARY AND DRAMATIC.

CHAPTER XIII. PARIS AND THE SIEGE.

CHAPTER XIV. 'QUATRE-VINGT-TREIZE.'—POLITICS, ETC.

CHAPTER XV. POEMS ON RELIGION.

CHAPTER XVI. PUBLIC ADDRESSES, ETC.

CHAPTER XVII. 'LA LÉGENDE DES SIÈCLES,' ETC.

CHAPTER XVIII. HONOURS TO VICTOR HUGO.

CHAPTER XIX. PERSONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

CHAPTER XX. THE POET'S DEATH AND BURIAL.

CHAPTER XXI. GENIUS AND CHARACTERISTICS.