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tastic sovereignty causes the cylone in the northern 

 hemisphere to revolve in the direction of the hands 

 of a watch, and sends an unincumhered sailor, when 

 he leaps from a sinking wreck to swim to a distant 

 rock, several fathoms under water and sets him 

 groping around on the submarine ledges before he 

 rises to the surface in order that the apocryphal 

 devil-fish may get hold of him. 



But to continue the review of "Notre Dame." 

 In the concluding chapters of this novel the author 

 indulges to the utmost his love for the monstrous 

 and abnormal exhibitions of the human passions, 

 and there is no escape; not even does the stern 

 visage of Justice loom above the scene, or the 

 grander visage of Destiny. 



In the distance a man ascends a ladder to a per- 

 manent gibbet, carrying a female figure on his 

 shoulder, — a young girl clad in white. The noose 

 is adjusted, the ladder kicked away, and the deli- 

 cate form is launched into the air with the figure of 

 a man squatted upon its shoulders. 



At this moment, in the foregroimd, on one of 

 the towers of Notre Dame, a priest who is contem- 

 plating the scene with outstretched neck, starting 

 eyeballs, and livid visage, being driven to the verge 

 of insanity by sheer brutal lust for the girl, but 

 thwarted in his designs by her horror of himself 

 and her love for another, is suddenly set upon from 

 behind by the enraged Hunchback, who it seems 

 is also in love with the girl, and precipitated over 

 the balustrade into the abyss. But the gutter 



