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OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENCE. DEC. 1, 1866. Paris, October, 1866. and one or more manuscripts which he hoped to transmute into bed and board. Whom he married I FEEL particular regret in recording the death of nobody knows. He reached here in the height of Charles Barbara. His whole life was a career of the cholera epidemic; he caught the disease and sorrow, and the manner of his death became his was saved. One trembles to think of the fate of mournful life. As he never talked of himself, even his little family had he died! His mother-in-law to his nearest friends, I am unable to tell you where fell sick, and she died; his wife followed her first or when he was born. He made his first appear to bed and then to the grave. She was not buried ance in public, introduced to "Le Corsaire" by poor when his child was a corpse. This sudden shipHenry Murger. He was at that time a tutor in a weal-wreck of his family, happiness, and even hopes, thy family. Murger and the joyous bard, celebrated brought on fever. There was nobody to nurse him in "La Vie de Boheme," made his acquaintance at his desolate home. I suspect there was not at a café they frequented, and at the public libraries money enough to buy food, let alone medicines. and public lectures. Common poverty introduced He was carried to the hospital; brain fever appeared. them. Charles Barbara wrote some articles for "Le In its delirium he leaped from a window on the Corsaire," but his life tinctured his labors with its fifth floor and was dashed to pieces on the ground. sombre colors. That newspaper required amusing The Literary Men's Society ordered their President articles; his contributions made the reader's hair to attend his funeral and make the customary farestand on end and blood curdle. He was not suc- well speech. The funeral took place late in the cessful, and it seems there was something in his afternoon. M. Paul Feval remembered his dinnerappearance which challenged ridicule (eminent men hour was at hand; everybody else had an equally have had this misfortune: Dr. Johnson, Mr. Chief good memory, and the poor fellow was borne to his Justice Marshall, John Randolph, of Roanoke), for grave (I believe the Potter's Field) followed by he was greeted with this remark: "M. Barbara, seven persons. I had thought pity wielded a more you look barbarous." A blush showed blood flowed potent sceptre. I was wrong. There is more magic from the wound; he made no reply; he was born in knife and fork. This brief sketch of poor Barto suffer without complaint. These are unfortunate bara would be still more incomplete if I failed to natures, for in them bitterness accumulates drop mention his love of music. His violin seemed to by drop; and when a frost of unusual severity pour balm on all his wounds; while he played it comes, the vase is shivered to atoms. He lost or he forgot earth and its storms. I translate a deresigned his place of tutor. How he lived after- scription of him as a musician: "Once a week, in wards is a mystery, which perhaps was never solved 1858 or 1859, we met in a painter's studio in the even to himself when he looked on the eve from Rue de Tournon, where concerts of classical music the morrow. He had a garret in the Latin Quarter, were given. The orchestra was composed of four but he was too poor to have lights or fire. He la- amateurs, who executed the quatuors of the great bored on a volume of tales which he was twelve years German masters. One of the four amateurs was a in writing (for he was amorous of perfection), and painter; another was a sculptor; the third was an which, when published, brought him $250. This architect; the fourth was a literary man. The gave him an income at the rate of $20 a year. These studio was small, and the easels and canvas were tales were eccentric tales. As the majority of read- pushed aside for the musicians' stands. One lamp, ers seek in books a refuge from life's cares, his book which hung from the ceiling, lighted the room, while had little sale, for it left the heart heavier than it the guests sat on sofas along the wall. We lighted found it; nevertheless, thinking readers recognized our cigars and listened. The literary man was the him as a man of talents, who looked upon tales as best musician of the four. Ile understood German something more than an amusement. He drama- music better than his companions; and while they tized one of these tales, but as it lacked the comic sometimes scraped horribly their instruments, his element, it was not so successful as it might have violin gave constant pleasure. I still see him bendbeen; besides, it was played in the summer, when ing over his music stand. He was still young, but the theatre's receipts average $20 a night. The his face expressed profound sorrow. His bright and play brought him in less than the tales. I be- intelligent eyes shunned others' glances, lest they lieve it did not bring him in one cent. He wrote a might reveal the agony of a lofty soul wrestling with second volume of tales: Moving Tales. They life's necessities. He was generally the last to make brought him $250. Then, in a moment of despair, his appearance, and the moment he entered he took or perhaps of resolution to prepare for renewed his violin and sat down to his music-stand. He struggles, he disappeared from Paris. He bade good- was the first to leave. I never saw him laugh once. by to nobody; he told no one where he was going; His name was Charles Barbara.” life's blows had fallen so fast and so heavily on that We have lately had a most deplorable criminal heart 'twas benumbed beyond sensibility to friend- trial, in which a publisher named Dupray de La ship and sympathy. It subsequently appeared he Maherie bore a prominent part. He was a man of had fled to the country, to some humble abode good family, and even pretended to be a noble. where $250 would seem a fortune, and enable him One day, at the Publishers' Club, he said: "I know to live and strive until he could write some new little about business-I am a nobleman." M. work. Continental Europe abounds with these Firmin Didot sharply replied: "Business requires villages, where, in blouse and wooden clogs, one noble men-a rank beyond the reach of a great many may live for an insignificant sum of money, pro- noblemen." Dupray de La Maherie held an office vided one requires no lamp, and, like the vil- under government, and was, with his wife's estate, lagers, find meat once a week no privation. There worth between 40 and $60,000. He wished to be one enjoys pure air and food, quiet, and that close wealthy and to shine. He came to Paris, tried vacommunion with Nature which elevates and strength-rious professions, became a publisher, brought out ens the mind. Poor Barbara's heart seems to have Samson's Memoirs (the headsman of Paris), and a softened in that rustic retreat; or perhaps he found great many other works; had two printing establisha family steeped in poverty compared with which ments, one in Paris and one at Toulouse, a bookselhis beggary seemed independence of fortune (in- ler's shop, and four or five other establishments. finite are misery's gradations!). He wooed and won To support these speculations he made the cashier a girl, married her and her mother, became a father, of a bank steal until the whole capital of the bank and returned to Paris, bringing up his new family was exhausted. It was $600,000. He has been sen |