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JASMIN AND HIS ENGLISH CRITICS.
Jasmin's visit to Paris in 1842 made his works more extensively known, both at home and abroad.

His name was frequently mentioned in the Parisian journals, and Frenchmen north of the Loire began to pride themselves on their Gascon poet.

His Blind Girl had been translated into English, Spanish, and Italian.

The principal English literary journal, the Athenaeum, called attention to his works a few months after his appearance in Paris.{1} The editor introduced the subject in the following words: "On the banks of the Garonne, in the picturesque and ancient town of Agen, there exists at this moment a man of genius of the first order--a rustic Beranger, a Victor Hugo, a Lamartine--a poet full of fire, originality, and feeling--an actor superior to any now in France, excepting Rachel, whom he resembles both in his powers of declamation and his fortunes.