Show A MASTER OP LANGUAGE Terrible Castigation Give a Bishop By Victor Hugo In Victor Hugos Correspondence just published in Paris is this letter to bishop Monseigneur de Segur whom I a Monsieur I was not addressed as aware he of your existence Today I I that you exist and even that you learn I believe U You have had I are a bishop beleve I to write the following the kindness folowIng lines about me Victor Hugo the I lnes the great the austere Victor Hugo magnificent poet of democracy and of he universal republic is equally I poor man afflicted with more than 300000 aficted italicized In the text vres a year iaIcrzed some even a say live RIO infamous book Lea Miserables brought him at a stroke LEs 500000 francs But we hear nothing noth-ing of the largess his vast humanitarIan humanita-rIan chart naturally obliges him to to his beloved I class the laborers make l hse he I selfish as They say he Is avaricious I as t he Is vainglorious I I will not waste time In assuring you that In the ten lines quoted above there are as many lies as there are words I will content myself with touching on the literary appreciation of Les MIs ler enables which you qualify as infamous infa-mous In Les Miserables there is a 0 Q t 2 bishop good sincere lovable fraternal who has wit as well as mildness and who mingles with his blessings every virtue This is why Los Miserables is an infamous book Whence we must conclude that i would be an admirable admir-able book if the bishop was a man of hate and Imposture an Insulter a vile and vulgar writer a coarse scribe of the basest kind a peddler of police cal umnles n croziercd and mired liar I Would the second bishop be truer than the first The question concerns you f Monsieur Yo i know more about bIshops bIsh-ops then I do I |