HELLO, ERNEST (1828-1885)

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HELLO, ERNEST (1828-1885) , French critic, was born at Treguier. He was the son of a lawyer who held posts of

great

GREAT

importance at Rennes and in Paris, and was well educated at both places, but took to no profession and resided much, for a time, in his father's country-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

in Brittany. A very strong Roman Catholic, he appears to have been specially excited by his countryman Renan's attitude to religious matters, and coming under the influence of J. A. Barbey d'Aurevilly and Louis Veuillot, the two most brilliant crusaders of the Church in the

press

PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

, he started a newspaper of his own, Le Croise, in 1859; but it only lasted two years. He wrote, however, much in other papers. He had very bad health, suffering apparently from spinal or bone disease. But he was fortunate enough to meet with a wife, Zoe Berthier, who, ten years older than himself, and a friend for some years before their

marriage

MARRIAGE

, became his devoted nurse, and even brought upon herself abuse from gutter journalists of the time for the care with which she guarded him. He died in 1885. Hello's

work

WORK

is somewhat varied in form but uniform in spirit. His best-known book, Physionomie de saints (1875), which has been translated into English (1903) as Studies in Saint ship, does not display his qualities best. Conies extraordinaires, published not long before his death, is better and more

original

ORIGINAL

. But the real Hello is to be found in a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of philosophical and

critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

essays, from Renan, l'Allemagne et l'atheisme (1861), through L'Homme (1871) and Les Plateaux de la balance (188o), perhaps his

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

book, to the posthumously published Le Siecle. The peculiarity of his standpoint and the originality and vigour of his handling make his studies, of Shakespeare, Hugo and others, of abiding importance as literary " triangulations," results of object, subject and point of view.

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