Many of your criticisms in detail strike me as very good. I was much pleased by your remarks on the storm in the _Travailleurs_. There was another very odd storm, as it struck me on a hasty reading in '93, where there is mention of a beautiful summer evening and yet the wind is so high that you can't hear the tocsin. You do justice also and more than justice to Hugo's tenderness about children. That, I think, points to one great source of his power. It would be curious to compare Hugo to a much smaller man, Chas. Reade, who is often a kind of provincial or Daily Telegraph Hugo. However that would hardly do in the Cornhill. I shall send your article to the press and hope to use it in July. Any alterations can be made when the article is in type, if any are desirable. I cannot promise definitely in advance; but at any rate it shall appear as soon as may be. Excuse this long rigmarole and believe me to be, yours very truly, LESLIE STEPHEN. I shall hope to hear from you again. If ever you come to town you will find me at 8 Southwell Gardens (close to the Gloucester Road Station of the Underground). I am generally at home, except from 3 to 5. [15] Portfolio. [16] Richmond Seeley. [17] The essay _Notes on the Movements of Young Children_. [18] I remember nothing of either the title or the tenor of this story. [19] Printed by Mr. Leslie Stephen in the Cornhill. IV ADVOCATE AND AUTHOR EDINBURGH--PARIS--FONTAINEBLEAU JULY 1875-JULY 1879