Excerpt from The Novels of Victor Hugo, Vol. 15: Hans of Iceland Every intellectual effort, be it drama, poem, or romance, must contain three ingredients - what the author has felt, what he has observed, and what he has divined: In a romance particularly, if it is to be a good one, there must be plenty of f eeling and plenty of observation; and those things which are divined must be derived logically, simply, and with no solution of continuity, from those things which are observed and felt. If we apply this law to Hans of Iceland, we shall readily grasp the chief defect of the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.